{"id":133048,"date":"2023-09-02T15:53:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133048"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:49:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:49:35","slug":"hour-8-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-8-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 8 &#8211; a million beautiful things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My gender is a million beautiful things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a lump of fuzzy blankets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the chime of a bicycle bell.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the head on a just poured stout.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the swirling mists wafting from the hot cup of coffee on an empty patio on an October morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a dog eared page in a yellowing book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the way the light shines off of brown eyes blinking away sleep on a saturday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">your favorite magnet on the fridge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the sunshine yolk of an over medium egg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a sheen of sparkling condensation on the pint of ice cream when you get home from the grocery store before you put it in the freezer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a fan that has been run high every single night since you can remember getting it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a toasted brioche bun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a watercolor painting of wildflowers that grow only on the hills of your dreams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the dirt that is still stuck in your hiking boots in the spring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the way your eyes roll into the back of your head when you take that first sip of cool water after mowing the lawn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the first ray of sunshine that breaches the mountain pass in spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the caramel at the bottom of your latte.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is every glimmer and beauty that shines in a day<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My gender is a million beautiful things. &nbsp; a lump of fuzzy blankets. the chime of a bicycle bell.\u00a0 the head on a just poured stout.\u00a0 the swirling mists wafting from the hot cup of coffee on an empty patio on an October morning.\u00a0 a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133048","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\/5396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135444,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133048\/revisions\/135444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}