{"id":119380,"date":"2022-06-26T02:23:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119380"},"modified":"2022-06-26T02:23:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:23:56","slug":"momentous-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/momentous-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentous Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Momentous Moment <\/p>\n<p>Long hours of preparation<br \/>\nThe competitive exam,<br \/>\nThe application process,<br \/>\nAnd after, not knowing<br \/>\nNot daring to guess<br \/>\nWhether I&#8217;ve done as well as I thought.<br \/>\nAs well as I ought&#8211;<br \/>\nAfter the long hours of study.<\/p>\n<p>Pitting myself against<br \/>\nUnseen forces<br \/>\nHoping I&#8217;ll get<br \/>\nInto University<br \/>\nWith my chosen courses.<\/p>\n<p>The ping of my laptop<br \/>\nHeart thudding to a stop<br \/>\nThe fumbling finger<br \/>\nScrolling down to linger<br \/>\nOn the one word&#8211; &#8220;Accepted&#8221; !!<br \/>\nOn to the &#8220;What you are expected<br \/>\nTo send in&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That one moment of pure joy<br \/>\nWhen fear gets lost<br \/>\nIn what seems like the distant past<br \/>\nThe moment that I savor most<br \/>\nTouching that longed-for goal post,<br \/>\nNot even the moment after<br \/>\nWhen the thrill has dissolved in laughter,<br \/>\nBut that exact moment of acceptance<br \/>\nIs the height of exuberance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Momentous Moment Long hours of preparation The competitive exam, The application process, And after, not knowing Not daring to guess Whether I&#8217;ve done as well as I thought. As well as I ought&#8211; After the long hours of study. Pitting myself against Unseen forces Hoping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,5],"tags":[4909,5500,3919],"class_list":["post-119380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-moment-of-joy","tag-prompt18-hour18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119401,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119380\/revisions\/119401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}