{"id":131815,"date":"2023-09-02T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131815"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:33:56","slug":"hour-6-scent-of-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-6-scent-of-a-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 6: Scent of a Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903_021627_Chrome-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-131669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903_021627_Chrome-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903_021627_Chrome.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People say smiles don\u2019t have scents<br \/>\nNor styles<br \/>\nNor choice of textile<br \/>\nAnd Yet<br \/>\nAnd YET<br \/>\nThe smell<br \/>\nThe perfume<br \/>\nIs what I recall first<br \/>\nof the moment<br \/>\nof that day<br \/>\nof that man<br \/>\nBreathing in beauty<br \/>\nA riot of joy, of colour, of beauty<br \/>\nAnd there he was, a part of it<br \/>\nThe morass of colour, of scent, of *life*<br \/>\nOf everything, everywhere<br \/>\n*And there he was*<br \/>\nPeople say love doesn\u2019t have a colour, or a scent<br \/>\nPeople say the same thing about things like smiles<br \/>\nReader, he turned around &#8211; and smiled, and I knew<br \/>\nReader, I married him &#8211; and we planted wildflowers around our house<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People say smiles don\u2019t have scents Nor styles Nor choice of textile And Yet And YET The smell The perfume Is what I recall first of the moment of that day of that man Breathing in beauty A riot of joy, of colour, of beauty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441,5],"tags":[4724,31,683,5971],"class_list":["post-131815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-scents","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-perfume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131815","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\/4375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131893,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131815\/revisions\/131893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}