{"id":17889,"date":"2016-08-13T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=17889"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:34:07","slug":"hearing-not-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hearing-not-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing and Not Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear sounds<br \/>\nMeanings carried like melodies<br \/>\nBut the lyrics are lost<br \/>\nIn the\u00a0acoustic\u00a0ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing tests passed<br \/>\nIn quiet rooms the waves still<br \/>\nSoft voices and bright tones<br \/>\nLike clear waters<\/p>\n<p>No ear-worn aid<br \/>\nCould teach my brain to hear<br \/>\nOne sound against a thousand<br \/>\nOne fish in the shoal<\/p>\n<p>I relax with<br \/>\nSign language and subtitles<br \/>\nBut may not request them<br \/>\nNot being deaf<\/p>\n<p>I love sounds<br \/>\nMusic is a lifeline with which<br \/>\nI catch your meaning<br \/>\nIf not your words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear sounds Meanings carried like melodies But the lyrics are lost In the\u00a0acoustic\u00a0ocean. Hearing tests passed In quiet rooms the waves still Soft voices and bright tones Like clear waters No ear-worn aid Could teach my brain to hear One sound against a thousand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[1284,1285,284,367],"class_list":["post-17889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-deafness","tag-hearing","tag-music","tag-second-hour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18636,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889\/revisions\/18636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}