{"id":140145,"date":"2023-09-03T02:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140145"},"modified":"2023-09-03T02:31:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:31:30","slug":"weight-hour-eighteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/weight-hour-eighteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight, Hour Eighteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weight<\/p>\n<p>A family trip across the whole of the United States<br \/>\nwhen I was six years old<br \/>\nat one point in our journey brought us to an ancient pueblo,<br \/>\nonce subterranean but now open to the sky.<\/p>\n<p>It no longer had a name,<br \/>\nnor a living people to dwell within,<br \/>\nits ancestral walls were broken, sunlight streaming through,<br \/>\nyet it inspired the anthropologist I would one day be.<\/p>\n<p>I approached it cautiously with my mother,<br \/>\ncarefully traversing the rock strewn terrain<br \/>\nas best my small limbs could manage<br \/>\nuntil we found the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>We stepped inside, and my childish chatter was stilled,<br \/>\na respectful hush maintained merely by its gravity,<br \/>\nthough my young mind could not yet consciously comprehend<br \/>\nits meaning, I felt the weight of centuries of humanity in this small space.<\/p>\n<p>Voices of the past seemed to keen on the wind<br \/>\nthat piled desert grit up its sides ever more with each passing year,<br \/>\nand the combined souls of thousands spoke to my own,<br \/>\nan awareness I carry in memory to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weight A family trip across the whole of the United States when I was six years old at one point in our journey brought us to an ancient pueblo, once subterranean but now open to the sky. It no longer had a name, nor a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140145","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140229,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140145\/revisions\/140229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}