{"id":119411,"date":"2022-06-26T02:43:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119411"},"modified":"2022-07-09T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T18:08:22","slug":"duality-hour-eighteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/duality-hour-eighteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Duality, Hour Eighteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duality<\/p>\n<p>Sadness and joy often inhabit<br \/>\nthe same moment, a counter balance.<\/p>\n<p>I had just finalized my divorce<br \/>\nand moved into a home of my own,<br \/>\nsigning the papers for the house<br \/>\non my daughter&#8217;s fifteenth birthday.<\/p>\n<p>I could not celebrate her birth,<br \/>\nnor mourn the death of a marriage,<br \/>\nas the children would be away with their father<br \/>\nfor the first time since the divorce.<\/p>\n<p>Melancholy welled up as I sat<br \/>\nin my nearly empty home<br \/>\non the futon that was<br \/>\nthen my only furniture.<\/p>\n<p>Sensing my sadness,<br \/>\nmy dog Ginger cuddled up on my left,<br \/>\nand Black Magic, the cat,<br \/>\non my right.<\/p>\n<p>Both gazed upward at my face<br \/>\nwith twin expressions that said<br \/>\n&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;ll be alright,&#8221;<br \/>\nand suddenly,<br \/>\ninexplicably, it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duality Sadness and joy often inhabit the same moment, a counter balance. I had just finalized my divorce and moved into a home of my own, signing the papers for the house on my daughter&#8217;s fifteenth birthday. I could not celebrate her birth, nor mourn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119411","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119411"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124806,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119411\/revisions\/124806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}