{"id":124291,"date":"2022-06-29T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=124291"},"modified":"2022-06-29T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:29:30","slug":"hour-eighteen-a-brief-line-a-moment-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-eighteen-a-brief-line-a-moment-of-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Eighteen ~A Brief Line A Moment of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Write a poem about a moment of joy.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompt-for-hour-eighteen-5#comment-45584\">June 26, 2022 2:07am EDT at 2:07 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A brief line, yet a complete letter,<br \/>\nNothing, nothing could have been better,<\/p>\n<p>fears dispelled but, brought more tears<br \/>\nnot of sadness, but of joy,<br \/>\npearls my eyes shed so many<br \/>\nmetamorphosed to a tsunami<\/p>\n<p>crossing the ocean beaches,<br \/>\nand bonded fetters unseen,<br \/>\nwashing away the clinging pain,<\/p>\n<p>I turn to the letter again<br \/>\nand again, speechless as more<br \/>\ntears surge with more joy,<\/p>\n<p>a few words sent<br \/>\nwere for another\u2019s joy meant,<br \/>\ntwo lines and a picture<br \/>\nmade up my letter,<\/p>\n<p>but what came in return<br \/>\nteaches a lesson and<br \/>\nmakes us learn,<br \/>\nwords sincere and said<br \/>\ntruly from the heart<br \/>\ntouch true feelings,<\/p>\n<p>with even a brief letter<br \/>\nbring happiness and joy<br \/>\nan eternal treasure.<br \/>\nthough tears may fall but<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write a poem about a moment of joy.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 June 26, 2022 2:07am EDT at 2:07 AM A brief line, yet a complete letter, Nothing, nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3882,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124291","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\/3882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124294,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124291\/revisions\/124294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}