{"id":138580,"date":"2023-09-02T23:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138580"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:35:56","slug":"138580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/138580\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Fifteen: A Listening Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shouting does not make me hear you better.<\/p>\n<p>Your voice booms naturally, arguing, singing, storytelling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The boys across the balcony can hear you revving up about the latest political absurdity.<\/p>\n<p>That phrase you repeated to the kids, &#8220;indoor voice,&#8221; or<\/p>\n<p>the husky-soft wisps that thread through the air vents when you guide meditation,<\/p>\n<p>those voices I can hear, words so calm and clear a megaphone could not silence them.<\/p>\n<p>You want to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Speak so I can listen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shouting does not make me hear you better. Your voice booms naturally, arguing, singing, storytelling&#8230; The boys across the balcony can hear you revving up about the latest political absurdity. That phrase you repeated to the kids, &#8220;indoor voice,&#8221; or the husky-soft wisps that thread&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138580","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138813,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138580\/revisions\/138813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}