{"id":134670,"date":"2023-09-02T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134670"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:57:37","slug":"hour-9-points-of-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-9-points-of-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9: Points of Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_134472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134472\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134472\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hour-Nine-Image-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Unsplash\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hour-Nine-Image-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hour-Nine-Image.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Parts of life, all life offer points of transition<br \/>\nButterflies show us this most clearly<br \/>\nSeemingly soft, but strong and resilient<br \/>\nSo much comes from the struggle<br \/>\n-to change<br \/>\n-to move through<br \/>\n\t-what was; to<br \/>\n\t-what can be<br \/>\nThey are unmade and remade<br \/>\nAdding strength to their wings in the effort to escape the chrysalis<br \/>\nSupport, resources from outside sources &#8211; these can be used<br \/>\nBut to intervene, to cut them free? Dooms them.<br \/>\nThey dissolve their sense of flesh, of self<br \/>\n-To move on<br \/>\n-To transition<br \/>\n-To transform<br \/>\nThe future inside them made gloriously manifest<br \/>\nJust so &#8211; our future is within<br \/>\nWaiting for moments of transition<br \/>\nThose transitions are not, are never, cannot be:<br \/>\n-Without consequences<br \/>\n-Without pain<br \/>\n-Without struggle<br \/>\nWe cannot know the shape of our future<br \/>\nBut we can know that<br \/>\n-some strengths<br \/>\n-some understandings<br \/>\n-some manifestations of potential<br \/>\nFor all their beauty<br \/>\nAre born in pain<br \/>\nAs, in truth, we all are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parts of life, all life offer points of transition Butterflies show us this most clearly Seemingly soft, but strong and resilient So much comes from the struggle -to change -to move through -what was; to -what can be They are unmade and remade Adding strength&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441,5],"tags":[3645,299,2111],"class_list":["post-134670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-transitions","tag-pain","tag-renewal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134670","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\/4375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134727,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134670\/revisions\/134727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}