{"id":129181,"date":"2023-09-02T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129181"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:01:12","slug":"the-change-of-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-change-of-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Change Of Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Two<\/p>\n<p>Rays of sunshine<br \/>\npierce through the<br \/>\nfabric of hope<br \/>\nlike hot daggers<br \/>\nsearing<br \/>\ncauterizing<br \/>\nthe wounds of<br \/>\nwinter&#8217;s blush<br \/>\nmelting the ventricles<br \/>\nof a heart&#8217;s cold season<br \/>\nwhen the chamber doors<br \/>\nhad closed<br \/>\nlike an iron fist.<br \/>\nA heart that beats<br \/>\nwith filagree<br \/>\nlaced by fingers<br \/>\nthat cradle it softly<br \/>\nheated by touch<br \/>\nand breath;<br \/>\na fog of heat<br \/>\nin the early morning<br \/>\nhovering over<br \/>\nthe hard ground<br \/>\nas it is loosed<br \/>\nfrom months of slumber.<br \/>\nWatered by the spring-<br \/>\na fountain of youthful<br \/>\noptimism<br \/>\nfor the promise<br \/>\nof life<br \/>\nin this new season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Two Rays of sunshine pierce through the fabric of hope like hot daggers searing cauterizing the wounds of winter&#8217;s blush melting the ventricles of a heart&#8217;s cold season when the chamber doors had closed like an iron fist. A heart that beats with filagree&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[680,3019,2158,49,31,326,390,1084],"class_list":["post-129181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-full-marathon","tag-hope","tag-love","tag-marathon","tag-writer","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129181","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\/1485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129496,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129181\/revisions\/129496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}