{"id":136587,"date":"2023-09-02T20:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136587"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:23:05","slug":"the-things-in-our-closets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-things-in-our-closets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things in Our Closets- Poem 12 Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young imaginations<\/p>\n<p>conjure creatures<\/p>\n<p>into closets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fire breathing dragons, warlocks, witches, magicians, unicorns and<\/p>\n<p>even the boogy man have done hard time<\/p>\n<p>in small closets across the world!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as we age and our closets become smaller<\/p>\n<p>as we become larger, our nightmares leave<\/p>\n<p>our small closets<\/p>\n<p>and our imagination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The closets close and<\/p>\n<p>imagination shuts down<\/p>\n<p>no longer conjuring the strange and sometimes wonderous creatures.<\/p>\n<p>The secret is-<\/p>\n<p>to keep conjuring and believing without fear!<\/p>\n<p>Allow the things to live in the closet-if they so wish!<\/p>\n<p>But remembering who holds the key to the closet-YOU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young imaginations conjure creatures into closets. &nbsp; Fire breathing dragons, warlocks, witches, magicians, unicorns and even the boogy man have done hard time in small closets across the world! &nbsp; Yet, as we age and our closets become smaller as we become larger, our nightmares&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136587","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136765,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136587\/revisions\/136765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}