{"id":128055,"date":"2023-09-02T10:39:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128055"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:42:01","slug":"my-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/my-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #2 My Ladder Prompt #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the distance,<\/p>\n<p>I see the silhouette<\/p>\n<p>of the ladder going both up and down.<\/p>\n<p>Taking me from Sadness and Sorrow to Joy and Opportunity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Challenge and Change-Growth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Up and Down-<\/p>\n<p>The Choice-my own as I climb up or down<\/p>\n<p>this ladder of\u00a0 Fate.<\/p>\n<p>Destiny&#8217;s dance has nothing to decide<\/p>\n<p>as I try not to slip and slide.<\/p>\n<p>This Jacob&#8217;s Ladder ride<\/p>\n<p>does not have the strength<\/p>\n<p>as I am stronger inside.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first wrung may seem distant at times<\/p>\n<p>dissolved in the mist like<\/p>\n<p>the promise of a lover&#8217;s first kiss.<\/p>\n<p>But I leap forward in faith knowing that<\/p>\n<p>my future rests on this first step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the distance, I see the silhouette of the ladder going both up and down. Taking me from Sadness and Sorrow to Joy and Opportunity&#8230; Challenge and Change-Growth. &nbsp; Up and Down- The Choice-my own as I climb up or down this ladder of\u00a0 Fate&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128055","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128350,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128055\/revisions\/128350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}