{"id":141217,"date":"2023-09-03T04:53:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141217"},"modified":"2023-09-03T04:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:53:40","slug":"hour-twenty-sacred-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-twenty-sacred-rites\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twenty: Sacred Rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never fond of uniformity and routine &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even the rites I keep<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are not routine &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">My only rituals are sacred ones:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The weekly journey to sanctuary<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never the same way<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never the same mode<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never the same purpose<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Except keeping the faith<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">And assuring justice is served<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washed in the Spirit,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Name, and<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">the divine Presence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">My body clock tuned to 3:30<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">without an alarm<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">for the ritual of<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Getting up to pee and drink water<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grabbing my laptop<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To keep faith with my golden time<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">My writing time<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bathed in divine enlightenment<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Awashed in words<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the holy sunrise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never fond of uniformity and routine &#8212; Even the rites I keep Are not routine &#8212; My only rituals are sacred ones: &nbsp; The weekly journey to sanctuary Never the same way Never the same mode Never the same purpose Except keeping the faith And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5783],"class_list":["post-141217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-marathon2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141217","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\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141353,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141217\/revisions\/141353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}