{"id":141523,"date":"2023-09-03T05:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141523"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:11:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:11:24","slug":"forrest-bathing-hour-prompt-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/forrest-bathing-hour-prompt-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Bathing hour\/prompt 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forest Bathing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>there comes a time each day, to walk the forest trail.<br \/>\nif I should forget, or be otherwise inclined, a warm moist<br \/>\nnose nudging my arm, or the deep and soulful dark eyes of one,<br \/>\naccompanied by the long low whimper of the other, will let me know<br \/>\nI have gone far to long forsaking our daily ritual.<\/p>\n<p>my folly and shame are met with complete forgiveness, as I grab the leashes<br \/>\nand we hookup for the brief car ride to any of several forest gates.<br \/>\npatiently waiting my gear permutations; bug spray, poop bags, water, tracking collars,<br \/>\nresponder, cell phone, and hat. up with the hatch and down with the ramp<br \/>\nto ease the old one&#8217;s exit.<\/p>\n<p>we take to the trail with uninhibited joy and ecstasy. the unmitigated pleasure<br \/>\none has when meeting a long absent lover. the haste to renew the union,<br \/>\nreignite the passion and explore every nook and cranny that may have transformed<br \/>\nwithin the past 24, or less, hours. each visit bringing a new ebullience that defies<br \/>\nhuman capacity for delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest Bathing there comes a time each day, to walk the forest trail. if I should forget, or be otherwise inclined, a warm moist nose nudging my arm, or the deep and soulful dark eyes of one, accompanied by the long low whimper of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141523","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\/2907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141539,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141523\/revisions\/141539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}