{"id":119555,"date":"2022-06-26T02:53:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119555"},"modified":"2022-06-26T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T21:18:12","slug":"hour-eighteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-eighteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Beholding Joy (Hour 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years of endless wait finally end<br \/>\nyears when, like a leech, you clung<\/p>\n<p>to the tail of hope<br \/>\nseeing, as medical reports go,<br \/>\nyou stood no chance<\/p>\n<p>You clung to your pillow<br \/>\nshedding nightly tears<\/p>\n<p>calling on the powers above<br \/>\nto dry your tear-filled eyes<\/p>\n<p>cursing the day fate pulled<br \/>\na trigger on you; you were<br \/>\nbruised but not crushed<\/p>\n<p>Now all you see is a mini you<br \/>\ngiggling in your joyful hands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years of endless wait finally end years when, like a leech, you clung to the tail of hope seeing, as medical reports go, you stood no chance You clung to your pillow shedding nightly tears calling on the powers above to dry your tear-filled eyes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119555","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\/2685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123572,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119555\/revisions\/123572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}