{"id":3082,"date":"2014-08-23T19:49:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T23:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2014-08-23T19:49:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T23:49:54","slug":"the-quiet-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-quiet-of-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quiet of the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit and wait on the others<\/p>\n<p>I wonder <em>Did I miss the email?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Where are my fellow writers?<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s summer&#8230;other plans?<\/p>\n<p>Some are out of town<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s nearly 40 in our group;<\/p>\n<p>So I sit and wait<\/p>\n<p>Then pick up my pen and start to write.<\/p>\n<p>Half an hour goes by<\/p>\n<p>Still I&#8217;m here alone;<\/p>\n<p>I start texting them<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where are you?&#8221; I ask.<\/p>\n<p>I pick up my pen again<\/p>\n<p>Get involved in my storyline;<\/p>\n<p>What?\u00a0 Another half hour?<\/p>\n<p>The time has flown by.<\/p>\n<p>The texts start coming in<\/p>\n<p>Different reasons, same answer;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I miss my writing friends<\/p>\n<p>But the quiet of the church&#8230;is inspiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit and wait on the others I wonder Did I miss the email? Where are my fellow writers? I know it&#8217;s summer&#8230;other plans? Some are out of town But there&#8217;s nearly 40 in our group; So I sit and wait Then pick up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}