{"id":1638,"date":"2014-08-23T11:26:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2014-08-23T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:26:33","slug":"third-post-to-what-and-to-whom-does-one-say-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/third-post-to-what-and-to-whom-does-one-say-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Post: &#8216;To What and To Whom Does One Say Yes?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;To what and to whom does one say yes?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One says yes to love, to adventure, to life rich and full,<br \/>\nOne says yes to dreams.<br \/>\nUnder pale moonlight in the dead of winter<br \/>\nAnything seems possible.<br \/>\nThis man is a prince<br \/>\nAnd you are only a princess if you wish to be<br \/>\nOr else, you are adventurers together, together in a mystery,<br \/>\nAs an old rhyme goes.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the warmth and light of day<br \/>\nIt\u2019s so easy to shake off these dreams,<br \/>\nRegain the life you had before,<br \/>\nThe magic of night useless in harsh daylight.<br \/>\nShadows hide but also invite<br \/>\nAdventure and mystery,<br \/>\nIntrigue and romance,<br \/>\nThat must not be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, one wants to say yes.<br \/>\nWe must say yes!<br \/>\nBe a prince, a princess, a romantic,<br \/>\nA knight in shining amour<br \/>\nAnd an adventurer brave.<br \/>\nBut most of all,<br \/>\nBe true and be real,<br \/>\nAnd say yes to dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Title taken from Caryolyn Forche\u2019s Elegy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;To what and to whom does one say yes?&#8217; One says yes to love, to adventure, to life rich and full, One says yes to dreams. Under pale moonlight in the dead of winter Anything seems possible. This man is a prince And you are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}