{"id":127310,"date":"2023-09-02T09:44:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127310"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:44:11","slug":"hour-one-antecedents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-one-antecedents\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour One: Antecedents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antecedents<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I walked into the morning<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sun not yet eyes opened<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">weight around my shoulders<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a black hole sucking me in<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">heavy hands pressing me \\<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">curling<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">head bowed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first seam of light<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">split over the horizon<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">drawing me up<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I lift my chin<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">release night\u2019s cloak<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">antecedent\u2019s grasp<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new day sanctified<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127343\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5279-scaled-e1693662172271-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5279-scaled-e1693662172271-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5279-scaled-e1693662172271-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5279-scaled-e1693662172271-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5279-scaled-e1693662172271-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5279-scaled-e1693662172271.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127345\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5280-scaled-e1693662152517-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5280-scaled-e1693662152517-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5280-scaled-e1693662152517-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5280-scaled-e1693662152517-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5280-scaled-e1693662152517-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5280-scaled-e1693662152517.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antecedents I walked into the morning Sun not yet eyes opened weight around my shoulders a black hole sucking me in heavy hands pressing me \\ curling head bowed The first seam of light split over the horizon drawing me up I lift my chin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127310","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\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127383,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127310\/revisions\/127383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}