{"id":37635,"date":"2017-08-05T19:53:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37635"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:53:19","slug":"hour-five-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-five-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Five: The Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author&#8217;s Note: I don&#8217;t have a location special to me, that I haven&#8217;t visited in many years so I can&#8217;t really do the prompt. However, I can write about a place that is special to me, that I have visited recently. So here it goes. Enjoy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the park,<\/p>\n<p>I can both<\/p>\n<p>reminisce about easier times<\/p>\n<p>and focus on the present,<\/p>\n<p>swinging away my problems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The swings are my designated spot.<\/p>\n<p>Up and up I go.<\/p>\n<p>Down, down I go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the only times<\/p>\n<p>I truly feel invincible.<\/p>\n<p>Like I&#8217;m flying<\/p>\n<p>without a care in the world once again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The wind whispers,<\/p>\n<p>making the trees sing<\/p>\n<p>and soothing my mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even though the traffic outside the park roars,<\/p>\n<p>I can forget for a moment that all that hustle and bustle<\/p>\n<p>is a part of my world,<\/p>\n<p>and at last, I can be free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: I don&#8217;t have a location special to me, that I haven&#8217;t visited in many years so I can&#8217;t really do the prompt. However, I can write about a place that is special to me, that I have visited recently. So here it goes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[684,2483,2484],"class_list":["post-37635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-childhood","tag-park","tag-reminisce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635","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\/1020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38170,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions\/38170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}