{"id":134282,"date":"2023-09-02T17:44:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134282"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:44:29","slug":"hour-9-the-moon-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-9-the-moon-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour #9 The Moon Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I\u2019ve been helping the moon learn to speak. She has always been silent, much like I was growing up. Perhaps she was afraid she&#8217;d embarrass herself with her words. Or with how she sounded. I told her that most likely, people would be soothed by the sound of her voice. And then yesterday, she surprised me by saying, \u201cI\u2019m full.\u201d \u201cWell, yes you are,\u201d I said, taking in the sound, which was a beautiful tinkling whisper that traveled like a stone skipping on water. \u201cWhy are you working so hard to get me to speak? Other moons don\u2019t speak, take Jupiter\u2014none of her eighty-three moons speak. A silent bunch they are.\u201d Then she snickered, \u201cCan you imagine,\u201d she said in that tinkling whisper, \u201csuch a cacophony in space.\u201d I said, \u201cOr a chorus, if they have perfect pitch.\u201d She smiled her big moon smile. Then we laughed together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I\u2019ve been helping the moon learn to speak. She has always been silent, much like I was growing up. Perhaps she was afraid she&#8217;d embarrass herself with her words. Or with how she sounded. I told her that most likely, people would be soothed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134282","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\/1134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134551,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134282\/revisions\/134551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}