{"id":43252,"date":"2017-08-06T08:56:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43252"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:56:29","slug":"hour-23-missing-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-23-missing-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 23: Missing the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sight of raindrops soothes the nerves,<br \/>\nlike the blissful smile of someone dear.<br \/>\nThe petrichor of soaking pain down the earth,<br \/>\nTo the parched and dead.<br \/>\nThe feel of droplets pounding the bare skin,<br \/>\nSome bouncing back,<br \/>\nlike the goodbyes of dear ones.<br \/>\nSome missing the hit,<br \/>\nlike the unrequited love.<br \/>\nThe sound of dropping rain, the first to greet.<br \/>\nDeferring the first sip of coffee,<br \/>\nPunctuating a book left open.<br \/>\nEvoking senses so heartfelt.<br \/>\nA sensation that yearns for more,<br \/>\nA thirst that satiates one and all.<br \/>\nCleansing every part of body and soul.<br \/>\nIt is a sustenance, a need of the hour.<br \/>\nHow I miss the drizzles and downpours,<br \/>\nLike the love at first sight,<br \/>\nof a love so deep-dyed.<\/p>\n<p>Snigdha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sight of raindrops soothes the nerves, like the blissful smile of someone dear. The petrichor of soaking pain down the earth, To the parched and dead. The feel of droplets pounding the bare skin, Some bouncing back, like the goodbyes of dear ones. Some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43252","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\/1107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43258,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43252\/revisions\/43258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}