{"id":135925,"date":"2023-09-02T19:21:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135925"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:21:47","slug":"opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-135793\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tim-foster-BnwRf_m3EIg-unsplash-1229x1536-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Foster\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tim-foster-BnwRf_m3EIg-unsplash-1229x1536-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tim-foster-BnwRf_m3EIg-unsplash-1229x1536-1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tim-foster-BnwRf_m3EIg-unsplash-1229x1536-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tim-foster-BnwRf_m3EIg-unsplash-1229x1536-1.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Opening<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I stroll down the path, the<\/p>\n<p>dark green forest envelopes me.<\/p>\n<p>Cool, leafy trees shade me<\/p>\n<p>from the burning rays of the sun.<\/p>\n<p>All is serene, not an insect or<\/p>\n<p>animal intrudes on my space.<\/p>\n<p>I am lost in my thoughts, like an<\/p>\n<p>automaton place one foot in front of another.<\/p>\n<p>Out of nowhere I come upon a break in the trees<\/p>\n<p>where sunlight penetrates my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I blink and my dream state is broken<\/p>\n<p>like a dry twig in a strong wind.<\/p>\n<p>Insects of all shapes and sizes flit and<\/p>\n<p>buzz in the warm sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>I follow the path through the opening<\/p>\n<p>my senses aware of my surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>I push through the cloud of insects and<\/p>\n<p>re-enter the tree covered path.<\/p>\n<p>Quickly my mind returns to the idle musings<\/p>\n<p>I had before entering the opening.<\/p>\n<p>I return to that automatous state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Opening &nbsp; I stroll down the path, the dark green forest envelopes me. Cool, leafy trees shade me from the burning rays of the sun. All is serene, not an insect or animal intrudes on my space. I am lost in my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135925","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\/2886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135935,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135925\/revisions\/135935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}