{"id":24331,"date":"2016-08-13T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24331"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:01:00","slug":"learning-to-float","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/learning-to-float\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Float"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the moon I have naught to fear<br \/>\nHer silver breath calms me still<\/p>\n<p>Upon my lake of glass<br \/>\nI ride the placid waves<\/p>\n<p>The rhythm that pounds beneath my breastbone<br \/>\nTells the tale of my past<\/p>\n<p>Of when the waters did my life spare<br \/>\nOnce when I thought myself immortal<\/p>\n<p>The illusion made near deadly<br \/>\nBy the my youthful glory<\/p>\n<p>Above the depths rippled my life giving canopy<br \/>\nThe mercurial duality of calm and stormy<\/p>\n<p>Panic set upon my heart for all was lost<br \/>\nUntil that moment of reprieve<\/p>\n<p>When arms so loving saved me from the depths<br \/>\nOf rubbery boundaries<br \/>\nAnd I was only three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the moon I have naught to fear Her silver breath calms me still Upon my lake of glass I ride the placid waves The rhythm that pounds beneath my breastbone Tells the tale of my past Of when the waters did my life spare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24331","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24935,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24331\/revisions\/24935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}