{"id":135509,"date":"2023-09-02T18:55:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135509"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:55:46","slug":"rain-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/rain-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cold, summer rain crashes into my<br \/>\ncheeks turned up toward the pouring sky<br \/>\nIt stings my flesh<br \/>\nLike tiny barbs<br \/>\nPainful and soothing all at once<\/p>\n<p>My arms outstretch toward the sky<br \/>\nMy clothes cling to me<br \/>\nAs every drop comes to me<br \/>\nWith purpose<br \/>\nOh, the purpose of washing all my fears away<\/p>\n<p>White noise fills my ears<br \/>\nBlocking out the sounds of the busy road<br \/>\nAhead<br \/>\nI let myself<br \/>\nDance and<br \/>\nTwirl<br \/>\nAnd frolic<br \/>\nLike I was in a field of wildflowers<\/p>\n<p>Water splashes around my footfalls<br \/>\nSoaking through my socks and my pants<br \/>\nMy hair absorbs the rain and pushes it down<br \/>\nBetween my eyes<br \/>\nLike rivers returning to the ocean<\/p>\n<p>Laughter fills me<br \/>\nAnd I am overwhelmed with awe<br \/>\nAt the simplicity of this moment<br \/>\nAnd the magic it holds <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cold, summer rain crashes into my cheeks turned up toward the pouring sky It stings my flesh Like tiny barbs Painful and soothing all at once My arms outstretch toward the sky My clothes cling to me As every drop comes to me With&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6067],"class_list":["post-135509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2023hour10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135509","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\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135519,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135509\/revisions\/135519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}