{"id":143039,"date":"2023-09-03T07:41:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143039"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:26:13","slug":"my-3-am-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/my-3-am-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy 3:00AM Ritual\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every weekend, before the world wakes up,<\/p>\n<p>I grab my running shoes and head out for a jog.<\/p>\n<p>In the University of The Philippines near my place,<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no race, I felt like grace,<\/p>\n<p>And the feeling of being in a good place,<\/p>\n<p>Starting my day right for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Silence, silence I can hear,<\/p>\n<p>I am the only person in the oval running this hour.<\/p>\n<p>No people around, something I prefer.<\/p>\n<p>I love it here.<\/p>\n<p>The world speaks to me like a friend,<\/p>\n<p>I can hear it telling stories.<\/p>\n<p>As If I am an old friend whom he sees once a week.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t feel weak at all.<\/p>\n<p>I gain power,<\/p>\n<p>In this hour of total darkness<\/p>\n<p>I see the first light of the world,<\/p>\n<p>Sharing its blessed wisdom to me<\/p>\n<p>Before I go on busking back<\/p>\n<p>To my usual city state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Prompt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Write a poem about a routine or ritual that is part of your life. It can be something like making coffee every morning, or something like attending religious services once a week.<\/p>\n<p>#POETRYMARATHON2023 #HOUR20 #24HRSCATEGORY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Every weekend, before the world wakes up, I grab my running shoes and head out for a jog. In the University of The Philippines near my place, It\u2019s no race, I felt like grace, And the feeling of being in a good place, Starting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143039","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\/1370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143069,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143039\/revisions\/143069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}