{"id":43144,"date":"2017-08-06T08:41:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43144"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:41:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:41:36","slug":"1124-breathlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/1124-breathlessness\/","title":{"rendered":"(#11\/24): \u201cBreathlessness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see you first.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fiddler plays.<\/p>\n<p>The dance begins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We approach warily.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite in sync, yet.<\/p>\n<p>Sizing each other up first.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Determining the tempo of our feet.<\/p>\n<p>The cadence we will take.<\/p>\n<p>What will be the resolution of our caper?<\/p>\n<p>The modulation we will make?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even before we engage,<\/p>\n<p>My heart\u2019s relentless rhythm,<\/p>\n<p>Already pounding incessantly,<\/p>\n<p>Drums its way into my every fibre of my being.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In full swing we now go,<\/p>\n<p>Matching each other in staccato,<\/p>\n<p>With every beat and every step.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And in the end, where do we stand,<\/p>\n<p>Staying apart, coming together, and drawing apart again,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this inexorable dance of life?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see you first. &nbsp; The fiddler plays. The dance begins. &nbsp; We approach warily. Not quite in sync, yet. Sizing each other up first. &nbsp; Determining the tempo of our feet. The cadence we will take. What will be the resolution of our caper?&#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-43144","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\/43144","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=43144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43147,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144\/revisions\/43147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}