{"id":46806,"date":"2019-06-22T09:54:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46806"},"modified":"2019-06-22T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:54:54","slug":"stone-hour-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/stone-hour-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone: Hour 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stone<\/p>\n<p>With death, after snaps at the heels<br \/>\nof what went before;<br \/>\na line of demarcation<br \/>\ndrives me forward;<br \/>\nand what I am now is both old and new in one. <\/p>\n<p>These days, I am scattered as soil;<br \/>\nbroken as weathered stone.<br \/>\nI am searching in nature,<br \/>\nfor something that fits<br \/>\nthe new shape of my heart. <\/p>\n<p>I was once a winter fire;<br \/>\na soft, slow rain in spring.<br \/>\nThe flat heat of a generous summer sun;<br \/>\na silvered autumn web. <\/p>\n<p>Now I am as stone. <\/p>\n<p>I am the broken walls of the old byres<br \/>\nShadowed in memories of task and toil.<br \/>\nI am dark windows lit by a faint moon.<br \/>\nI am the gathered stories of this family home.<br \/>\nI am a boulder, heavy and still<br \/>\nOn the river bed;<br \/>\nNo tide will move me on.  <\/p>\n<p>I am the pulse of my own seasons now.<br \/>\nOwned by these fields, this untilled soil;<br \/>\na caretaker, caught on the cusp of memory. <\/p>\n<p>I am our days and my own in one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stone With death, after snaps at the heels of what went before; a line of demarcation drives me forward; and what I am now is both old and new in one. These days, I am scattered as soil; broken as weathered stone. I am searching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46806","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46819,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46806\/revisions\/46819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}