{"id":119475,"date":"2022-06-26T02:35:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119475"},"modified":"2022-06-26T02:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:35:11","slug":"hour-18-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-18-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I said yes<br \/>\nto go to a club<br \/>\nI regretted my answer immediately afterwards.<br \/>\nI did not like the beats,<br \/>\nthe closeness of the people.<br \/>\nI did not like the expectations,<br \/>\nthe dancing to feel noticed.<br \/>\nI wanted anything but to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>So it took me by surprise<br \/>\nthat when I tried again,<br \/>\nthis time in a country far away,<br \/>\nI felt the joy of movement.<br \/>\nMy throat raw from the singalong music,<br \/>\nthey were playing golden oldies.<\/p>\n<p>We sneaked in a couple of beers<br \/>\nand people smoked inside,<br \/>\nthe ceiling was low so my tall friend couldn\u2019t do<br \/>\ntoo much up and down jumping.<\/p>\n<p>And all I remember is that China<br \/>\nis the country where I learned how to dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I said yes to go to a club I regretted my answer immediately afterwards. I did not like the beats, the closeness of the people. I did not like the expectations, the dancing to feel noticed. I wanted anything but to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5484,2652,5506],"class_list":["post-119475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022hour18","tag-hour18","tag-houreighteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119475","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\/2465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119480,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119475\/revisions\/119480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}