{"id":2848,"date":"2014-08-23T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2014-08-23T18:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:23:51","slug":"at-the-waters-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/at-the-waters-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"at the water&#8217;s edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i have always been happiest at the water&#8217;s edge-<\/p>\n<p>whenever i am overlooking a turquoise ocean<\/p>\n<p>i come to life and feel open to the universe<\/p>\n<p>like i feel in no other place.<\/p>\n<p>i inhale and let the warm winds blow through my nostrils and my hair-<\/p>\n<p>i let go and allow myself to exhale.<\/p>\n<p>speedboats race by in front of me-<\/p>\n<p>seagulls fly overhead-<\/p>\n<p>i am open to the universe here-<\/p>\n<p>ready and amazed with all of God&#8217;s creations.<\/p>\n<p>He is here-<\/p>\n<p>in small fish-<\/p>\n<p>in colored glass-<\/p>\n<p>in flowers i&#8217;ve never seen.<\/p>\n<p>He is in the hillsides and on the mountaintops-<\/p>\n<p>here at the water&#8217;s edge He reminds me that He is alive and well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i have always been happiest at the water&#8217;s edge- whenever i am overlooking a turquoise ocean i come to life and feel open to the universe like i feel in no other place. i inhale and let the warm winds blow through my nostrils and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}