{"id":42623,"date":"2017-08-06T07:31:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42623"},"modified":"2017-08-06T07:31:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:31:47","slug":"silence-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/silence-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Better to start with what I<br \/>\nHaven\u2019t missed.<br \/>\nI haven\u2019t missed the meals I skipped<br \/>\nWhen the choice was art or<br \/>\nBread<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t missed money<br \/>\nUnless I was broke and begging<br \/>\nBut I\u2019d miss any page gone from these shelves<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t missed the chatter that tore my<br \/>\nMind away from her own matters<br \/>\nA theft only time and silence can cure<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t missed the time I gave or the<br \/>\nKisses, but I miss that magic that turned us out of our<br \/>\nEntwined bodies our spirits rocked<br \/>\nLocked together transforming through<br \/>\nSpectra of species<br \/>\nOh we were bears enclasped lions<br \/>\nLeaping salmon<br \/>\nWolves writhing snakes<br \/>\nRising like smoke from our<br \/>\nBurning flesh<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll never miss a ball and chain<br \/>\nYet yearn so for<br \/>\nCompatriot, collaborator, mutual transmogrifier<br \/>\nI probably wouldn\u2019t mind<br \/>\nA little less silence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Better to start with what I Haven\u2019t missed. I haven\u2019t missed the meals I skipped When the choice was art or Bread I haven\u2019t missed money Unless I was broke and begging But I\u2019d miss any page gone from these shelves I haven\u2019t missed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[2228,680,2133,2316,2318,326,2720,15,391,10,355,2116,42,2317,390,1084],"class_list":["post-42623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2017poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-2017-poetry-marathon","tag-laurel","tag-laurel-wilson","tag-marathon","tag-miss","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-poetrymarathon2017","tag-silence","tag-wilson","tag-writer","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42623","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\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42634,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42623\/revisions\/42634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}