{"id":18146,"date":"2016-08-13T09:58:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18146"},"modified":"2016-08-13T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:59:05","slug":"sonerous-breaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/sonerous-breaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonerous Breaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to invite you to join us in celebration of<br \/>\nTwo most momentous occasions: two sides of the breath.<br \/>\nThe first inhale<br \/>\nThe last exhale<br \/>\nOne marks the beginning, and one the end<\/p>\n<p>This fete full of marvels and milestones<br \/>\nIs sure to bestir such great gasps of wonder<br \/>\n\tAt times<br \/>\nObserve<br \/>\n        the first view of the milky way<br \/>\nthe whale breaching<br \/>\n        the aurora borealis<br \/>\nA litter of kittens beneath the stoop<\/p>\n<p>Between the first breath and the last is monotony and adventure<br \/>\nAnd endless sea of breaths<br \/>\nGathered full force,<br \/>\na lifetime of breaths could suction out the essence of space and put it all back again<br \/>\nBut we cannot know such power<br \/>\nAnd so we sip politely each our own lung-fulls, and empty them again, never counting, never knowing when the last one will come<br \/>\nThe first one hurt so badly, was such a shock, and the last one will just be the last<br \/>\nThe sonerous breath<br \/>\nTo whisk the dandelion seeds across the lawn<br \/>\nGather in you lungs the briny breath of sea<br \/>\nA breath that hitches in surprise, but eventually seeps back out into the ether<br \/>\nThe roiling rising disturbance from beneath water,<br \/>\nThe duration of said celebration cannot be determined<br \/>\nUntil the final sleep where the breathing ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to invite you to join us in celebration of Two most momentous occasions: two sides of the breath. The first inhale The last exhale One marks the beginning, and one the end This fete full of marvels and milestones Is sure to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146","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\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18191,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146\/revisions\/18191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}