{"id":120477,"date":"2022-06-26T04:45:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120477"},"modified":"2022-06-26T04:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:45:19","slug":"20-dappled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/20-dappled\/","title":{"rendered":"20: Dappled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wander<\/p>\n<p>vacant halls<\/p>\n<p>where life and laughter lived;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hopes and Dreams<\/p>\n<p>packed their bags.<\/p>\n<p>I slept on;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I thought I heard<\/p>\n<p>the hinge turn,<\/p>\n<p>light steps<\/p>\n<p>in the dappled dawn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wordlessly,<\/p>\n<p>they latched,<\/p>\n<p>and locked,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and left<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>through garden,<\/p>\n<p>to curb,<\/p>\n<p>to catch the yellow-sorrow cab.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kick memories,<\/p>\n<p>rattling,<\/p>\n<p>down tiled halls;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mark<\/p>\n<p>the echo,<\/p>\n<p>empty, cold;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No embers to be stirred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wander vacant halls where life and laughter lived; &nbsp; Hopes and Dreams packed their bags. I slept on; &nbsp; I thought I heard the hinge turn, light steps in the dappled dawn. &nbsp; Wordlessly, they latched, and locked, &nbsp; and left &nbsp; through garden,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120477","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120484,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120477\/revisions\/120484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}