{"id":39692,"date":"2017-08-05T20:10:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39692"},"modified":"2017-08-05T23:10:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:10:50","slug":"hour-12-prompt-12-lessons-from-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-12-prompt-12-lessons-from-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 12 &#8211; Prompt 12 &#8211; Lessons from the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A full-day picnic on the beach<br \/>\nWatching tides weave their magic<br \/>\nTireless, they hit the shore<br \/>\nEach wave feels like homecoming<\/p>\n<p>For a few seconds, sand and sea meet<br \/>\nEach give a piece of themselves<br \/>\nTake something of the other<br \/>\nAs they recede <\/p>\n<p>They welcome all with open arms<br \/>\nIrrespective of the time of day<br \/>\nAcross all seasons, through the year<br \/>\nWithout looking at age, race, or color<\/p>\n<p>They accept the giggles of children<br \/>\nThey absorb the confusion of teens<br \/>\nThey answer the queries at crossroads<br \/>\nThey wash away the loneliness of old age<\/p>\n<p>Their action remains the same each day<br \/>\nOnly the intensity of their union changes<br \/>\nThey teach life\u2019s lessons to those willing to learn<br \/>\nThey explain how each relationship works<\/p>\n<p>People and seasons \u2013 come and go<br \/>\nGive them love or throw dirt into them<br \/>\nThey focus only on their identity \u2013 to come and go<\/p>\n<p>(c) Vijaya Gowrisankar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full-day picnic on the beach Watching tides weave their magic Tireless, they hit the shore Each wave feels like homecoming For a few seconds, sand and sea meet Each give a piece of themselves Take something of the other As they recede They welcome&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39692","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\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39704,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39692\/revisions\/39704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}