{"id":136895,"date":"2023-09-02T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136895"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:34:04","slug":"the-ordinary-is-what-was-extraordinary-hour-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-ordinary-is-what-was-extraordinary-hour-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ordinary is What Was Extraordinary hour 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ordinary is What Was Extraordinary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>the pilgrimage inward is never the same as the voyage back.<br \/>\neverything looks different and the journey seems truncated.<br \/>\nplanning to be prepared for the unexpected, itself a contradiction,<br \/>\nis an exercise in trust, for once the gate is open the waters rush in<br \/>\nand anything-can-happen-day reaches a new maturity.<\/p>\n<p>respecting the past, honoring the dead, even as I know<br \/>\ntheir deaths were brutal and unacceptable, is a delicate balance<br \/>\nof heart and mind. in a history of such monumental proportion<br \/>\ndoes a child here or there, a baby, teen, wife, baker or an elder <\/p>\n<p>claim more tears than any other? my own aunt, uncle, and grandparents<br \/>\nremain lines in handwritten letters, rarely a photo, barely a story.<br \/>\ndoes piecing together fragments make their ordinary story any more<br \/>\nextraordinary? will witnessing their possible grave site generate closure?<\/p>\n<p>the road not taken, may be ordinary, but the destination can be extraordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ordinary is What Was Extraordinary the pilgrimage inward is never the same as the voyage back. everything looks different and the journey seems truncated. planning to be prepared for the unexpected, itself a contradiction, is an exercise in trust, for once the gate is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136895","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\/2907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136946,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136895\/revisions\/136946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}