{"id":127816,"date":"2023-09-02T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127816"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:25:02","slug":"voice-of-two-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/voice-of-two-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of Two Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scent of pine and autumn lay softly in the cool crisp air.<br \/>\n&#8220;Come with me&#8221;, his soft whisper mixes with the calls of nature like a love song only I can hear.<br \/>\nHe has a calming sense about him, making me feel at peace in his presence.<br \/>\nI take a step forward and the air turns stale and frigid.<br \/>\n&#8220;No. Stay here, with me.&#8221;<br \/>\nHis voice is deep and raspy, sending a shudder through my spine.<br \/>\nI turn and look to see cold darkness.<br \/>\nNo longer is the scent of pine and autumn.<br \/>\nNo longer is the love song.<br \/>\nNo longer am I at peace.<br \/>\n&#8216;He is right&#8217;, I start to think, taking a step back.<br \/>\n&#8220;Come with me&#8221;, the love song breaks through.<br \/>\nI look forward, to the calm openness.<br \/>\nI take a deep breath and a sigh of relief,<br \/>\nAs I take his hand and step forward into the open field of hope and dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scent of pine and autumn lay softly in the cool crisp air. &#8220;Come with me&#8221;, his soft whisper mixes with the calls of nature like a love song only I can hear. He has a calming sense about him, making me feel at peace&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127816","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\/5398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128105,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127816\/revisions\/128105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}