{"id":34777,"date":"2017-08-05T14:18:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34777"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:18:38","slug":"the-morning-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-morning-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning begins the dance,<br \/>\nA new day&#8217;s arrival, a new day&#8217;s chance.<br \/>\nChoices to be made on the focus of the day.<br \/>\nChoices to be made whether we&#8217;ll fret or pray.<\/p>\n<p>Every morning begins the dance,<br \/>\nThe coffee and ice water filled.<br \/>\nChecking morning emails, following the drill.<br \/>\nVacation changes the dance and gives all a thrill.<\/p>\n<p>Every morning begins the dance,<br \/>\nSome do the zombie walk.<br \/>\nRemembering to take a chance,<br \/>\nTo smile at others and to talk.<\/p>\n<p>Every morning begins the dance,<br \/>\nWhat choices will you make?<br \/>\nWill you lose yourself in the day,<br \/>\nOr will a chance you take?<\/p>\n<p>Make a difference every morning,<br \/>\nFind a new dance to do.<br \/>\nYou touch more lives than you know,<br \/>\nMake a difference, show kindess true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning begins the dance, A new day&#8217;s arrival, a new day&#8217;s chance. Choices to be made on the focus of the day. Choices to be made whether we&#8217;ll fret or pray. Every morning begins the dance, The coffee and ice water filled. Checking morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34777","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\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34784,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34777\/revisions\/34784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}