{"id":21804,"date":"2016-08-13T15:46:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21804"},"modified":"2016-08-13T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:46:44","slug":"and-how-we-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/and-how-we-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"And How We Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We danced each night.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the soft moonlight.<br \/>\nYou reached for my hand;<br \/>\nAnd brought\u00a0me to your chest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We danced body and soul.<\/strong><br \/>\nTogether as one flame.<br \/>\nYour eyes gazed lovingly into mine;<br \/>\nThere was no spotlight, yet, we shined!<\/p>\n<p><strong>We moved in fluid gentle motion<\/strong>;<br \/>\nNot one on the outside has a notion.<br \/>\nIf they knew we were chosen.<br \/>\nThey would cry, they would kneel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While we danced through the years<\/strong>;<br \/>\nTo heal our bodies through such war.<br \/>\nYou have whispered secrets to my soul.<br \/>\nYet, lost the rhythm, and are no longer whole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can only dance in my dreams&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nNow you are broken at the seams.<br \/>\nAs your brain bled upon itself&#8230;<br \/>\nYou lost that half of yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And still, we dance in our heart;<\/strong><br \/>\nI am here and there, as you wish.<br \/>\nWe speak, we dance in the mind;<br \/>\nYou are my knight, one of a kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We danced each night. In the soft moonlight. You reached for my hand; And brought\u00a0me to your chest. We danced body and soul. Together as one flame. Your eyes gazed lovingly into mine; There was no spotlight, yet, we shined! We moved in fluid gentle&#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":[1602,237,1603],"class_list":["post-21804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-musings","tag-dancing","tag-dreams","tag-loving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804","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=21804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21954,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804\/revisions\/21954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}