{"id":32701,"date":"2017-08-05T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32701"},"modified":"2017-08-05T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:22:15","slug":"up-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/up-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1490823853387-09b84ca6227e-1-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I stop noticing or caring about the edge of the guard railing\u00a0digging into my thigh about 20 minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>The wind tries to push me backwards. I lean into Zephyr.<\/p>\n<p>The water breaks along the sand and the whooshing rhythm fills my ears.<\/p>\n<p>Gulls crying for a Cheeto percuss the beat.<\/p>\n<p>Ants moving from shady spot to shady spot, the sun beating down on all.<\/p>\n<p>One ant is dragging her toddler ant towards the water.<\/p>\n<p>My eyes focus on the tiny pink bathing suit and the blonde curls.<\/p>\n<p>Not ants.<\/p>\n<p>I feel small again. My thighs start to ache again.<\/p>\n<p>The wind tries to push me back. I let him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stop noticing or caring about the edge of the guard railing\u00a0digging into my thigh about 20 minutes ago. The wind tries to push me backwards. I lean into Zephyr. The water breaks along the sand and the whooshing rhythm fills my ears. Gulls crying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32701","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\/1111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32942,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32701\/revisions\/32942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}