{"id":119572,"date":"2022-06-26T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119572"},"modified":"2022-06-26T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:50:10","slug":"18-what-does-a-moment-of-joy-really-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/18-what-does-a-moment-of-joy-really-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"#18- What Does a Moment of Joy Really Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does a moment of joy really mean?<\/p>\n<p>Does it strike faster than bolts of lightning?<\/p>\n<p>Or fall slowly like a shower of rain?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it just listening to birds sing?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>How can you measure a moment of joy?<\/p>\n<p>Can it be counted off your fingertips?<\/p>\n<p>Is it simpler than gifting a child toys?<\/p>\n<p>Or much sweeter than a cup of dole whip?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How you feel when a baby holds your hand<\/p>\n<p>Or a puppy comes bounding up to you<\/p>\n<p>It could be seeing your favourite band<\/p>\n<p>Or discovering that your dreams came true<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because a moment of joy is a thing of beauty<\/p>\n<p>Warming you up like a hot cup of tea<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Wrote a Shakespearean sonnet this time!<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does a moment of joy really mean? Does it strike faster than bolts of lightning? Or fall slowly like a shower of rain? Or is it just listening to birds sing? &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119572","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\/3849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119579,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119572\/revisions\/119579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}