{"id":131762,"date":"2023-09-02T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131762"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:25:17","slug":"we-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/we-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"We Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>We Dance<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We dance for the universe<\/p>\n<p>to hear our prayers<\/p>\n<p>to bring us healing<\/p>\n<p>and self empowerment<\/p>\n<p>to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The colors and bells<\/p>\n<p>mingle to create<\/p>\n<p>a cleansing<\/p>\n<p>and energizing aura<\/p>\n<p>as the drums emphasize<\/p>\n<p>the songs story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it may look like fancy twirls,<\/p>\n<p>fluffy feathers and colorful beads.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of it all,<\/p>\n<p>the dances we do<\/p>\n<p>have a purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are retelling<\/p>\n<p>our sacred stories with you.<\/p>\n<p>The screaming you hear<\/p>\n<p>is in a language that is fading.<\/p>\n<p>It is time itself resurfacing<\/p>\n<p>to tell you what history left out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Dance &nbsp; We dance for the universe to hear our prayers to bring us healing and self empowerment to ourselves. &nbsp; The colors and bells mingle to create a cleansing and energizing aura as the drums emphasize the songs story. &nbsp; it may look&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131762","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\/3277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131774,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131762\/revisions\/131774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}