{"id":42960,"date":"2017-08-06T08:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42960"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:21:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:21:24","slug":"give-me-the-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/give-me-the-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Give me the Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set the metronome<\/p>\n<p>Give us the beat<\/p>\n<p>Let my heart beat in time with it<\/p>\n<p>Let my body breathe with it<\/p>\n<p>Let us fall in time with each other<\/p>\n<p>We shall march it<\/p>\n<p>We shall dance it<\/p>\n<p>Our feet moving across the ground<\/p>\n<p>In old and mystic patterns<\/p>\n<p>Our hands lifted<\/p>\n<p>Like worshipers in a pentacostal church<\/p>\n<p>Partaking in the most holy of communion<\/p>\n<p>We dance<\/p>\n<p>We sing<\/p>\n<p>We march<\/p>\n<p>We join hands<\/p>\n<p>We are sanctified in the sound<\/p>\n<p>We are washed in the rhythm<\/p>\n<p>We are whole in each other<\/p>\n<p>For this one beautiful shining moment<\/p>\n<p>We are at one with the music<\/p>\n<p>And we are free<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set the metronome Give us the beat Let my heart beat in time with it Let my body breathe with it Let us fall in time with each other We shall march it We shall dance it Our feet moving across the ground In old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42960","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42995,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42960\/revisions\/42995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}