{"id":34280,"date":"2017-08-05T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34280"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:43:50","slug":"hour-five-place-of-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-five-place-of-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Five, Place of meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morpheus<\/p>\n<p>I was not supposed to be there,<br \/>\nthat place in the woods.<br \/>\nI went anyway,<br \/>\nreasoning that one<br \/>\nwho walked softly<br \/>\ncould not be a trespasser.<\/p>\n<p>The path leading in could<br \/>\neasily be missed,<br \/>\na barely seen comma<br \/>\nin a nearly unbroken green sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The cool and dappled quiet<br \/>\nsoothed my troubled teen soul,<br \/>\nand I followed the barely-there path<br \/>\nas it wound its meandering way<br \/>\nround a small pond&#8217;s edge.<\/p>\n<p>The stiff, sharp spines of surrounding<br \/>\nreeds protected pristine water<br \/>\nlilies from my reaching hands<br \/>\nuntil I found a small break in the reeds<br \/>\nand waded my way into the shallows.<\/p>\n<p>I stripped away my outer layers<br \/>\nuntil I lay naked in the sun,<br \/>\na yearning Ophelia, unable to complete<br \/>\nmy wish for oblivion deeper than sleep,<br \/>\ninstead allowing a silence<br \/>\nthat was not silent<br \/>\nto fill and heal<br \/>\nan aching teen&#8217;s troubled soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morpheus I was not supposed to be there, that place in the woods. I went anyway, reasoning that one who walked softly could not be a trespasser. The path leading in could easily be missed, a barely seen comma in a nearly unbroken green sentence&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34280","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34434,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34280\/revisions\/34434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}