{"id":132845,"date":"2023-09-02T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132845"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:02:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:02:52","slug":"hour-7-mortality-and-moonlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-7-mortality-and-moonlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7: Mortality and Moonlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What I Know for Sure About Mortality\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is that there is no age limit on backyard games because will all become ground, tree, or grass and it is always kind to get to know your neighbors\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That nothing hits the soul quite like moonlight on water because it is to witness a great force as seen by the one it pulls upon\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That we have already discovered time travel because knowing the past is as close as we will ever get to seeing the future<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That there is a big difference between starting a call with I love you and ending a phone call with I love you but that both hold the same fear for a dial tone\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And if you watch a full plane in turbulence it looks just like the swaying crowd of a concert pit because in both hold the same freedom from anything else that matters\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That Mary was not told her son would die because women have never been trusted with knowledge, but have always been trusted to hold others\u2019 pain\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And finally, that a grand final act can be a sip of orange juice or a smile because the small pleasures are all we get\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because the small pleasures are all we ever need.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I Know for Sure About Mortality\u00a0 &nbsp; Is that there is no age limit on backyard games because will all become ground, tree, or grass and it is always kind to get to know your neighbors\u00a0 &nbsp; That nothing hits the soul quite like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132845","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\/5310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133171,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132845\/revisions\/133171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}