{"id":133163,"date":"2023-09-02T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133163"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:13:19","slug":"brighter-horizons-hour-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/brighter-horizons-hour-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighter Horizons &#8211; Hour 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The silhoutted strings play over my heart<br \/>\ncasting a hopeful shadow<br \/>\nthat better things are to come<br \/>\na brighter horizon<\/p>\n<p>Like a climactic scene of a film<br \/>\nit&#8217;s building to something<br \/>\nsomething purposeful<br \/>\nsomething worth holding on to<\/p>\n<p>It could be a soft kiss<br \/>\na warm hug<br \/>\na gentle smile<br \/>\nsometimes that&#8217;s all it takes<\/p>\n<p><em>to get through<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the cellos echo out<br \/>\nin my orchestra of life<br \/>\nI appreciate the little things<br \/>\nI appreciate you<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not validation I seek<br \/>\nit&#8217;s belonging<br \/>\nin your world<br \/>\nand in mine<\/p>\n<p><em>in ours<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I let the subtle notes sink in<br \/>\nlifting my body above the ground<br \/>\nI&#8217;m soaring so high<br \/>\nit&#8217;s beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The silhoutted strings play over my heart casting a hopeful shadow that better things are to come a brighter horizon Like a climactic scene of a film it&#8217;s building to something something purposeful something worth holding on to It could be a soft kiss a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2973,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133163","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\/2973"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133298,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133163\/revisions\/133298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}