{"id":18151,"date":"2016-08-13T10:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18151"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:10:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:10:49","slug":"beautiful-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/beautiful-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Awake . . .\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nMy eye are open<br \/>\nMy mind is still sleeping;<br \/>\nIn a way.<br \/>\nI want to go back to sleep;<br \/>\nStill I am here&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Creating&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nNot very well . .<br \/>\nI&#8217;d venture, right now.<br \/>\nThis is not my time . . .<br \/>\nOf day.<br \/>\n<strong>Noon . . .<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is better for me;<br \/>\nMy time of day.<br \/>\nAw, to be young again.<br \/>\n<strong>Nap . . .<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat a beautiful word!<br \/>\nWe dreaded as children;<br \/>\nWe cling to as adults.<br \/>\n<strong>Sleep . . .<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is so wonderful;<br \/>\nWhen it is good.<br \/>\nWe often have to seek it;<br \/>\nTo force it . . .<br \/>\nEven when we are tired.<br \/>\n<strong>Eluding . . .<\/strong><br \/>\nFor too many of us.<br \/>\nThe world has been anxious;<br \/>\nSteals our calm . . .<br \/>\nAffects our sleep.<br \/>\n<strong>Dis-ease . . .<\/strong><br \/>\nBecause we are not . . .<br \/>\nAt ease, at all.<br \/>\nWe are afraid;<br \/>\nWe cannot rest or relax.<br \/>\n<strong>Sleep&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18329\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-18329\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015_06-Manhattan-007-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hapi relaxes on my laptop...\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015_06-Manhattan-007-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015_06-Manhattan-007-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hapi relaxes on my laptop&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How do we get there?<br \/>\nHow do we relax, again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awake . . .\u00a0 My eye are open My mind is still sleeping; In a way. I want to go back to sleep; Still I am here&#8230; Creating&#8230; Not very well . . I&#8217;d venture, right now. This is not my time . . &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[361,1265,1264,375],"class_list":["post-18151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-musings","tag-anxiety","tag-calm","tag-relax","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151","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\/745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18355,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151\/revisions\/18355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}