{"id":129481,"date":"2023-09-02T12:15:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129481"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:17:08","slug":"hour-4-a-pantoum-on-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-4-a-pantoum-on-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4 &#8211; A Pantoum on Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Connection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Will I be content to stay this way?<br \/>\nOr will I take the difficult path to connect?<br \/>\nWith you, unperfectly perfect for me<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s commit together<\/p>\n<p>Or will I take the difficult path to connect?<br \/>\nIt is always tempting to remain an island<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s commit together<br \/>\nFor we can offer ourselves as one<\/p>\n<p>It is always tempting to remain an island<br \/>\nAn island of selfishness and fear<br \/>\nFor we can offer ourselves as one<br \/>\nOne of the many, but one of our hope<\/p>\n<p>An island of selfishness and fear<br \/>\nWe can sail with our connection<br \/>\nOne of the many, but one of our hope<br \/>\nAfter forty years, I am sure<\/p>\n<p>We can sail with our connection<br \/>\nWith you, unperfectly perfect for me<br \/>\nAfter forty years, I am sure<br \/>\nto be content to stay this way for more<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompt-for-hour-four-6\">Prompt 4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connection Will I be content to stay this way? Or will I take the difficult path to connect? With you, unperfectly perfect for me Let&#8217;s commit together Or will I take the difficult path to connect? It is always tempting to remain an island Let&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5889,683],"class_list":["post-129481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-connection","tag-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129481","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\/3549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129791,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129481\/revisions\/129791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}