{"id":22982,"date":"2016-08-13T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22982"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:31:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:31:48","slug":"hour-9-prompt-9-picture-1-enjoy-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-9-prompt-9-picture-1-enjoy-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9 &#8211; Prompt 9 &#8211; Picture 1 &#8211; &#8220;Enjoy the present&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve left me free in this picturesque scene<br \/>\nFree to explore and go, wherever I wish<\/p>\n<p>Should I walk on the board walk, enjoy the creaks?<br \/>\nShould I climb and balance to walk on the wooden fence?<br \/>\nShould I walk on the moist, yellow grass, near the stream?<br \/>\nShould I walk on the dry, yellow grass, soft beneath my heels?<br \/>\nShould I climb on the fragile branches, and flit like a butterfly?<br \/>\nShould I jump from one branch to the next, like a monkey, all agile?<br \/>\nShould I explore deeper into the rugged terrain, on a mountain trek?<br \/>\nShould I touch the snow with bare hands, and the sky above my head?<br \/>\nShould I row on handmade boat, and check where the stream goes?<br \/>\nShould I just put my feet in the water and feel the water&#8217;s flow?<\/p>\n<p>With so many choices to make, will I forget to breathe in the essence?<br \/>\nWill I forget to enjoy the present moment in nature&#8217;s presence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve left me free in this picturesque scene Free to explore and go, wherever I wish Should I walk on the board walk, enjoy the creaks? Should I climb and balance to walk on the wooden fence? Should I walk on the moist, yellow grass,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[1691],"class_list":["post-22982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-picture1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22982","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\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22998,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22982\/revisions\/22998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}