{"id":42191,"date":"2017-08-06T06:21:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42191"},"modified":"2017-08-06T06:21:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:21:02","slug":"hour-22-prompt-22-looking-forward-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-22-prompt-22-looking-forward-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 22 &#8211; Prompt 22 &#8211; Looking forward to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She stood, poised,<br \/>\nready to take on the world<br \/>\nThe ballroom was waiting,<br \/>\nand people were whispering<br \/>\n&#8220;Would she falter?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She stood, poised,<br \/>\nready to leave the past behind<br \/>\nShe had emerged from the cocoon<br \/>\nof her parents sudden death<br \/>\nHer grief was not for display<\/p>\n<p>She stood, poised,<br \/>\nher dress, a conscious choice<br \/>\nHer shoulders bare, free of burdens<br \/>\nThe colour black, emphasizing<br \/>\nstrength, fearlessness, and elegance<\/p>\n<p>She stood, poised,<br \/>\nready for the future<br \/>\nThe ring on her finger, the<br \/>\nunconditional support of her fiancee<br \/>\nhelped her shed her shyness and emerge<\/p>\n<p>She stood, poised,<br \/>\nready to sit on the empty throne<br \/>\nA queen in the making, her<br \/>\nkingdom, her people were her focus<br \/>\nShe had left her insecurities behind<\/p>\n<p>(c) Vijaya Gowrisankar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She stood, poised, ready to take on the world The ballroom was waiting, and people were whispering &#8220;Would she falter?&#8221; She stood, poised, ready to leave the past behind She had emerged from the cocoon of her parents sudden death Her grief was not for&#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-42191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42191","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=42191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42200,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42191\/revisions\/42200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}