{"id":34203,"date":"2017-08-05T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34203"},"modified":"2017-08-25T15:25:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T19:25:27","slug":"return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/return\/","title":{"rendered":"Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe stream makes a turn.<\/p>\n<p>There, at the corner of perfection and bliss, lie rocks from far up the way<\/p>\n<p>The pebbles are different from the ones that poked the ball of my feet if I jumped just a little too close to the shore as a child<\/p>\n<p>but that was then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Years have passed and the water has stroked deep softness into the smooth face of the massive rock beings who appear the same size as they were back then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But then&#8230; I was smaller, and so they seemed bigger, and so now, perhaps they are different.<\/p>\n<p>This is returning to the purity of life as it breathes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-34346\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shalas-Rach-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shalas-Rach-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shalas-Rach-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shalas-Rach-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shalas-Rach-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shalas-Rach-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":907,"featured_media":34346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,441],"tags":[680,23,31,15,10,355,2116,1628,1084,392],"class_list":["post-34203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-life","tag-love","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-poetrymarathon2017","tag-prompt","tag-writing","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34203","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\/907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44630,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34203\/revisions\/44630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}