{"id":35877,"date":"2017-08-05T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35877"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:18:19","slug":"when-the-rains-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/when-the-rains-return\/","title":{"rendered":"When the rains return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell by the petrichor in the air.<\/p>\n<p>It gives off somewhat of a poignant odor,<\/p>\n<p>Something which hasn&#8217;t graced our presence in<\/p>\n<p>Quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But we don&#8217;t relegate ourselves to the indoors.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re better than that. Instead, we charge out there<\/p>\n<p>And feel the full force of nature pounding our skin ,<\/p>\n<p>Letting us know how inconsequential it can become.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We let it all seep in until it becomes part of us,<\/p>\n<p>Until we can&#8217;t tell where the rain ends and we begin.<\/p>\n<p>When all is said and done, we&#8217;ll cross the threshold once more<\/p>\n<p>And let nature be the eyes we have since disregarded,<\/p>\n<p>Staring profoundly out the window,<\/p>\n<p>Always looking at everything but seeing nothing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell by the petrichor in the air. It gives off somewhat of a poignant odor, Something which hasn&#8217;t graced our presence in Quite some time. &nbsp; But we don&#8217;t relegate ourselves to the indoors. We&#8217;re better than that. Instead, we charge out there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35877","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\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35957,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35877\/revisions\/35957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}