{"id":132370,"date":"2023-09-02T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132370"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:25:53","slug":"hour-7-viator-sunflowers-of-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-7-viator-sunflowers-of-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour #7: Viator + Sunflowers of Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Sunflowers lead me back to childhood\u00a0\r\nwhen I had to look up, up, up to see petals\r\nwaving and pressing high against the bluest sky.\r\nGolden dreams were the clouds' outlines. \r\n\r\nHeartbroken and jaded, I quietly plead, \r\n\"Sunflowers, lead me back to childhood\" \r\nwhen despair was never larger than sidewalk shadows\r\nor the lightning bugs' nighttime shows.<\/pre>\n<pre>Summers of healing turned to winters of deep sleep.\r\nAs I learned grace in slowing down, I'd let memories of \r\nsunflowers lead me back to childhood, \r\nsipping elixers of nature's berries, herbs, and flowers.\r\n\r\nSighing in these silent years of distance and stunted dreams,\r\nI don't mourn challenges and losses along the rock-strew road.\r\nGrace comes quietly and with her gentle invitation to let \r\nsunflowers lead me back to childhood.<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-125441\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20210123_014533_538-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20210123_014533_538-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20210123_014533_538-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20210123_014533_538-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20210123_014533_538-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20210123_014533_538-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20210123_014533_538-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Image by Martin Torrez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunflowers lead me back to childhood\u00a0 when I had to look up, up, up to see petals waving and pressing high against the bluest sky. Golden dreams were the clouds&#8217; outlines. Heartbroken and jaded, I quietly plead, &#8220;Sunflowers, lead me back to childhood&#8221; when despair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132370","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\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132665,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132370\/revisions\/132665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}