{"id":46618,"date":"2019-06-22T09:36:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46618"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:17:06","slug":"poem-1-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/poem-1-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"poem #1 ~ I am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the best of the times\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am the worst of times<\/p>\n<p>I am the morning light caught in the mist above the grass<\/p>\n<p>I am wounded darkness bleeding into the horizon<\/p>\n<p>I am water, pooling in a muddy hollow, where a small bird sips<\/p>\n<p>I may be the cat that will leap, breaking the bird\u2019s fragile bones<\/p>\n<p>I am the flight of crows climbing and the vulture in their wake<\/p>\n<p>I am what I know and what I have forgotten, as my mother did<\/p>\n<p>Whatever I am, it is all of this<\/p>\n<p>the hard and the heart-filled<\/p>\n<p>the hungry and the replete. All that I am brims from emptiness<\/p>\n<p>whispering <em>this too I am. This that you seek, this that you fear.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am &nbsp; the best of the times\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am the worst of times I am the morning light caught in the mist above the grass I am wounded darkness bleeding into the horizon I am water, pooling in a muddy hollow, where a small&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46618","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46626,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46618\/revisions\/46626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}