{"id":42102,"date":"2017-08-06T06:18:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42102"},"modified":"2017-08-06T06:18:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:18:53","slug":"dresses-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/dresses-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dresses&#8217; Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every dress has a dream, maybe two.<\/p>\n<p>For me, today, my dreams came true.<\/p>\n<p>One, to drape the body of Lady Maribou.<\/p>\n<p>To be featured in a painting was my deux.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My lines are sleek, my fabric smooth.<\/p>\n<p>Night black of silk and made to move.<\/p>\n<p>When worn, there&#8217;s nothing left to prove.<\/p>\n<p>And, honey, let me tell you, I&#8217;m never booed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll live this night together, she and I.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, off to the shop, to clean-dry.<\/p>\n<p>But for this moment of glory, I won&#8217;t cry.<\/p>\n<p>There will be others, dresses&#8217; dreams don&#8217;t lie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42170\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0618-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0618-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0618.jpg 671w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every dress has a dream, maybe two. For me, today, my dreams came true. One, to drape the body of Lady Maribou. To be featured in a painting was my deux. &nbsp; My lines are sleek, my fabric smooth. Night black of silk and made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":42170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[237,2706,1366,1628],"class_list":["post-42102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-dreams","tag-dress","tag-ekphrastic","tag-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102","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\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42186,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102\/revisions\/42186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}