{"id":32421,"date":"2017-08-05T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32421"},"modified":"2017-08-09T01:32:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T05:32:58","slug":"2017-poetry-marathon-hour-two-the-morning-air-is-cool-to-the-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/2017-poetry-marathon-hour-two-the-morning-air-is-cool-to-the-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Poetry Marathon, Hour Two: The morning air is cool to the touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>At 150,000 miles<\/em><br \/>\n<em> the sun appeared<\/em><br \/>\n<em> a reddish dot<\/em><br \/>\n<em> against an indistinct grey sky<\/em><br \/>\n<em> its color a clever cover<\/em><br \/>\n<em> for the furnace within<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Bleary-eyed<br \/>\nand a bit numb<br \/>\nI drift through my morning routine<br \/>\nthinking of as little as possible<br \/>\nbecause I know what happens<br \/>\nwhen I start thinking<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I tried to photograph the scene<\/em><br \/>\n<em> but the sun literally paled<\/em><br \/>\n<em> photographs, like memories<\/em><br \/>\n<em> capture only so much<\/em><br \/>\n<em> losing the rest<\/em><br \/>\n<em> to what we wanted them to be<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>The morning air<br \/>\nis cool to the touch<br \/>\nI know that feeling too well<br \/>\nthat\u2019s what happens<br \/>\nwhen the hand is withdrawn<br \/>\nleaving the desire behind<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(5 August 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 150,000 miles the sun appeared a reddish dot against an indistinct grey sky its color a clever cover for the furnace within Bleary-eyed and a bit numb I drift through my morning routine thinking of as little as possible because I know what happens&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2133,2136,2134,710,1628],"class_list":["post-32421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2017-poetry-marathon","tag-august-2017","tag-half-marathon-for-now","tag-hour-two","tag-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32421","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\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43879,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32421\/revisions\/43879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}