{"id":137395,"date":"2023-09-02T21:33:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137395"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:33:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:33:25","slug":"do-you-know-your-left-from-your-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/do-you-know-your-left-from-your-right\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Do You Know Your Left from Your Right?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Thirteen<\/p>\n<p>Children will bounce off walls if their dance teacher tells them. (We don&#8217;t of course!)<\/p>\n<p>Adolescents won&#8217;t do but so much, they don&#8217;t want to get perspired in case &#8220;dreamy&#8221; happens to pass by.<\/p>\n<p>Some adults will sponsor funds for children&#8217;s tights rather than buy a pair for themselves. (Patrons are cool with me, not complaining.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seasoned&#8221; adults count like this during warm-up exercises-&#8221; One, two, three, five, &#8230;eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, eighteen, etc.&#8221; (We reach thirty is less than three minutes this way.)<\/p>\n<p>Dance classes without mirrored walls offer the best teaching environment sometimes. The only body they see is mine and my smile at their effort is all they need reflected. DMW<\/p>\n<p>PS Retired. Recently asked to consider choreographing a new piece just this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Thirteen Children will bounce off walls if their dance teacher tells them. (We don&#8217;t of course!) Adolescents won&#8217;t do but so much, they don&#8217;t want to get perspired in case &#8220;dreamy&#8221; happens to pass by. Some adults will sponsor funds for children&#8217;s tights rather&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137395","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\/5306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137620,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137395\/revisions\/137620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}