{"id":31720,"date":"2017-08-05T10:28:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31720"},"modified":"2017-08-05T12:45:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:45:51","slug":"how-i-would-sing-longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/how-i-would-sing-longing\/","title":{"rendered":"how i would sing longing &#8211; #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i would sing<br \/>\nits myriad moods<br \/>\na choppy conglomerate<br \/>\nneither soft nor raucous<br \/>\nmeasured nor clipped<br \/>\nwith open mouth and searching eyes<br \/>\nabove a rolling continuo<br \/>\nof ocean surf<\/p>\n<p>its full-throated harmonies a dance,<br \/>\nbeat, bursts of symphonic grandeur<br \/>\nand quiet string trios, a gentle burbling brook<br \/>\nand sun seeping into cool rock<br \/>\nmost reverent hush\u00a0of whispered prayer<\/p>\n<p>a crescendo speeding up<br \/>\na flight of notes,<br \/>\nnot quite a trill<br \/>\nyet building, rising<br \/>\nto a sudden stop &#8211;<br \/>\na \u00a0 \u00a0 long \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0drawn \u00a0 \u00a0 out \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 silence \u2026.<\/p>\n<p>a grateful exhale.<\/p>\n<p>swb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i would sing its myriad moods a choppy conglomerate neither soft nor raucous measured nor clipped with open mouth and searching eyes above a rolling continuo of ocean surf its full-throated harmonies a dance, beat, bursts of symphonic grandeur and quiet string trios, a gentle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31720","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\/1122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33811,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31720\/revisions\/33811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}