{"id":34001,"date":"2017-08-05T13:07:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34001"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:07:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:07:49","slug":"tiny-dancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/tiny-dancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Dancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Light fills my world when he nears. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The moment our eyes meet, our song begins to play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I dance for him with all of my heart and soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though my legs scream and my lungs burn, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fire that fills me is one of joy, not pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dress twirls and twirls in time with the song, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beneath me, the world spins as I do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never tired, never ending. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, it\u2019s done. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silence and darkness fall. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The music stops. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I fall still and wait once more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our song will play again,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And for him I will dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, and forever. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light fills my world when he nears. The moment our eyes meet, our song begins to play. I dance for him with all of my heart and soul. Though my legs scream and my lungs burn, The fire that fills me is one of joy,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[680,813,31,284,10],"class_list":["post-34001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-dance","tag-love","tag-music","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34001","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\/1038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34022,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34001\/revisions\/34022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}