{"id":43119,"date":"2017-08-06T08:37:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43119"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:37:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:37:11","slug":"824-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/824-loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"(#8\/24): \u201cLoneliness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overwhelmed, overwrought, overawed am I<\/p>\n<p>Alone in this prayer cell, on knees I bend<\/p>\n<p>Reverently and humbly, I reflect, \u201cOh my\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before God, I dare not lift my head<\/p>\n<p>My form prostrate, I contemplate, and<\/p>\n<p>Yet, all I can do is think<\/p>\n<p>Unceasingly of my family and of<\/p>\n<p>The life I left behind at home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 S Phua<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(\u201cI bend my head and think of home\u201d from \u201cThoughts in the Silent Night\u201d by Li Bai (701-762); translated by Yang Xianyi &amp; Dai Naidie.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwhelmed, overwrought, overawed am I Alone in this prayer cell, on knees I bend Reverently and humbly, I reflect, \u201cOh my\u201d Before God, I dare not lift my head My form prostrate, I contemplate, and Yet, all I can do is think Unceasingly of my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43119","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43126,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43119\/revisions\/43126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}