{"id":25939,"date":"2016-08-13T23:35:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25939"},"modified":"2016-08-14T05:50:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:50:27","slug":"hour-15-physical-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-15-physical-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 15 &#8211; Physical Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>The Hidden Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I look around me every day and marvel at the thought<br \/>\nThat everyone you\u2019ve ever met is riding a thin line.<br \/>\nThe big and small, the old and young, the ugly and the hot,<br \/>\nWe all live out our human lives one heartbeat at a time.<\/p>\n<p>A hundred thousand times each day, our hearts constrict with force,<br \/>\nAn organic hydraulic pump designed in such a way,<br \/>\nThat sixty thousand miles of tubes are laid out on it\u2019s course<br \/>\nAnd blood is sent to each of them and ushered on its way.<\/p>\n<p>An engineering marvel lives in every human breast,<br \/>\nyet sometimes we must help it out, for blood is tricky stuff.<br \/>\nThrough history the heart attack has stilled many a chest,<br \/>\nBut doctors with balloons and stents have helped to make us tough.<\/p>\n<p>So be aware the pulse you feel or hear \u201club-dub\u201d away,<br \/>\nIs there because your sleepless heart\u2019s on duty night and day.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hidden Heart I look around me every day and marvel at the thought That everyone you\u2019ve ever met is riding a thin line. The big and small, the old and young, the ugly and the hot, We all live out our human lives one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[680,1919],"class_list":["post-25939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-the-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25939","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\/839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27776,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25939\/revisions\/27776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}