{"id":37743,"date":"2017-08-05T19:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37743"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:20:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:20:30","slug":"poem-11-irish-jig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/poem-11-irish-jig\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 11: Irish Jig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am swept away.<br \/>\nToes pointed, scuffling<br \/>\nunable to walk<br \/>\nbut dancing<br \/>\nwith a lightness that<br \/>\nsparkles<br \/>\nlike happy motes<br \/>\nin sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>Where have I been?<br \/>\nWhere did I go?<br \/>\nWhere am I now?<br \/>\nI haven\u2019t the wits to guess,<br \/>\nthe breath to answer.<\/p>\n<p>My feet prance on.<\/p>\n<p>My mouth could never hope to lay shape<br \/>\nto these melodies,<br \/>\nspeak this wordless language:<br \/>\nits vowels too delicate,<br \/>\nits rhythms too complicated<br \/>\nfor my heavy American tongue.<\/p>\n<p>If I close my eyes,<br \/>\nmy body will dance on<br \/>\nand on,<br \/>\ntwisting and gyrating<br \/>\nand meeting people whose names<br \/>\nI don\u2019t understand.<br \/>\nWhen I open my eyes,<br \/>\nwhere,<br \/>\nwhy,<br \/>\nand who<br \/>\nwill I have become?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to Katy Adelson\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2ZxAVUsuE4Y\">Swallowtail Jig<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am swept away. Toes pointed, scuffling unable to walk but dancing with a lightness that sparkles like happy motes in sunlight. Where have I been? Where did I go? Where am I now? I haven\u2019t the wits to guess, the breath to answer. My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743","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\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37799,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743\/revisions\/37799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}