{"id":27655,"date":"2016-08-14T05:33:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27655"},"modified":"2016-08-14T05:33:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:33:38","slug":"like-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/like-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rainbow\"<\/p>\n

Love comes down to choices<\/span><\/p>\n

Much like the choice of being in the rain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rain – can seem soothing or threatening. \u00a0It’s always important, a force to be acknowledged.<\/span><\/p>\n

When it comes you never know how intense it will be, no matter what you’ve heard, until you experience it.<\/span><\/p>\n

You look out and suddenly you’re faced with choices. \u00a0You can’t stop the rain but you can choose how it affects you.<\/span><\/p>\n

You may choose to stay inside and miss it altogether. \u00a0Live where it’s safe and never get wet.<\/span><\/p>\n

You may choose to adorn a cover. \u00a0Go in put stay protected from all that it can do to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

You may choose to just go out into the rain. \u00a0Fully experience the torrents and just get wet.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you choose to get wet you again have choices. \u00a0How did it feel?<\/span><\/p>\n

You can choose to be overwhelmed by the wet and cold that you have to live through.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can choose to be embraced by each drop, taking joy in the nourishment that it gives everywhere it falls.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if you embraced the rain, you may then choose to go out in the rain again and again<\/span><\/p>\n

Until it fulfills the promise to make you grow<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love comes down to choices Much like the choice of being in the rain. Rain – can seem soothing or threatening. \u00a0It’s always important, a force to be acknowledged. When it comes you never know how intense it will be, no matter what you’ve heard,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,13,12,1],"tags":[331,31,200],"class_list":["post-27655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-uncategorized","tag-choices","tag-love","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27655","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\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27671,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27655\/revisions\/27671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}