{"id":137130,"date":"2023-09-02T20:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137130"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:55:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:55:01","slug":"hour-twelve-a-metaphor-in-search-of-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-twelve-a-metaphor-in-search-of-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twelve: A Metaphor in Search of Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-136616 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-1024x738.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-1536x1106.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-2048x1475.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Could this be<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">half a mandala &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">a symbol for<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">half the universe?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is this half the sorrow<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">before transformation<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">or the joy at the center?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or is your gift<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">a lace fan &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">unfolded to display<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">cool images of holy contentment &#8212; or<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">are these plumes of a strutting \u00a0peacock<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">cast in black and white &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">showing off his beauty in<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">search of companionship?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s a mandala<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">of a different hue<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">a different nature<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s the universe<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">celebrating my half journey,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">inviting me to enter for joy and beauty,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">for contentment and companionship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could this be half a mandala &#8212; a symbol for half the universe? Is this half the sorrow before transformation or the joy at the center? &nbsp; Or is your gift a lace fan &#8212; unfolded to display cool images of holy contentment &#8212; or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5783],"class_list":["post-137130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-marathon2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137130","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\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137171,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137130\/revisions\/137171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}