{"id":138617,"date":"2023-09-02T23:41:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138617"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:47:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:47:58","slug":"yellow-is-such-a-happy-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/yellow-is-such-a-happy-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow is such a happy colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138894\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20210123_014533_538-768x768-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20210123_014533_538-768x768-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20210123_014533_538-768x768-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20210123_014533_538-768x768-2.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yellow is such a happy colour<br \/>\nYou pick up the sunflower and I imagine how the room will take on a glad colour with it<br \/>\nYou pay the florist and we walk out of the stall.<\/p>\n<p>In the next stall, you pick up a yellow-knitted shawl. again you say it as you smile<br \/>\n&#8220;Yellow is such a happy colour&#8221;<br \/>\nI hear the baby chuckle as it is wrapped in it<\/p>\n<p>You raise one of the palettes, pointing at the colour<br \/>\nYou choose it for the nursery<br \/>\nYellow is such a happy colour<br \/>\nI can imagine sitting there with the baby wrapped in love as we bond<\/p>\n<p>You tell me you want the child named &#8216;Daffodil&#8217; or &#8216;Sunflower&#8217;. You say that the flower are beautiful and you know she will be too<br \/>\nWe just did a gender reveal and you chose yellow for female, purple for male<br \/>\nWhen the colour sailed up to the sky, you danced in it and cried<br \/>\nYellow is such a happy colour<\/p>\n<p>When I am asked who my yellow is, I do not need to think too much<br \/>\nYour soul flutters and spreads so much love. Your eyes bulge and expand when you are surprised<br \/>\nEven the sun copies the yellow-dazzle from you.<br \/>\nI also imagine that yellow is synonymous with happiness when they ask because like you always say:<br \/>\nYellow is such a happy colour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow is such a happy colour You pick up the sunflower and I imagine how the room will take on a glad colour with it You pay the florist and we walk out of the stall. In the next stall, you pick up a yellow-knitted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,1136,441,5],"tags":[6230],"class_list":["post-138617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-hour-7-response"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138617","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\/4575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138908,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138617\/revisions\/138908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}