{"id":140974,"date":"2023-09-03T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140974"},"modified":"2023-09-10T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T04:48:18","slug":"water-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/water-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each night<br \/>\nbetween dusk and sundown<br \/>\nI pause to water the garden.<br \/>\nThere is nothing more important<br \/>\nin that moment.<br \/>\nI pay attention as I go.<br \/>\nWith attention,<br \/>\nI notice and appreciate<br \/>\nthe flow of water<br \/>\ngrowth and change<br \/>\nnew buds,<br \/>\nfull blossoms,<br \/>\nand scattered petals.<\/p>\n<p>I know I am done<br \/>\nwhen I have attended to all the plants,<br \/>\nwhen the white moon rises against<br \/>\na lavender sky,<br \/>\nand when the bat starts flitting<br \/>\nand dipping in its aerobatic flight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each night between dusk and sundown I pause to water the garden. There is nothing more important in that moment. I pay attention as I go. With attention, I notice and appreciate the flow of water growth and change new buds, full blossoms, and scattered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[6332],"class_list":["post-140974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023-marathon-prompt-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140974","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\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145284,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140974\/revisions\/145284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}