{"id":46900,"date":"2019-06-22T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46900"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:14:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:14:05","slug":"magic-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/magic-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic- Hour 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to dance in magic<\/p>\n<p>I swung my arms and the world sparkled in it<\/p>\n<p>I could see it in lifelike trees<\/p>\n<p>Fairies in forests<\/p>\n<p>Magic communicating in a cat&#8217;s meow<\/p>\n<p>A bird&#8217;s song at daybreak<\/p>\n<p>Magic was all around me<\/p>\n<p>It swirled me in it&#8217;s possibility<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now it is reckless<\/p>\n<p>Pointless<\/p>\n<p>Waste of time, effort<\/p>\n<p>Life has become the day to day<\/p>\n<p>Getting by<\/p>\n<p>No time for fairies and fantasy<\/p>\n<p>No time for unicorns and dragons<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Magic is still there, sometimes I glimpse it<\/p>\n<p>Hiding behind a tree<\/p>\n<p>Watching me from a rainbow<\/p>\n<p>Sleeping in mountain sunlight<\/p>\n<p>late in the afternoon<\/p>\n<p>Waving at me from the stars on a summer&#8217;s eve<\/p>\n<p>Begging me to dance in it<\/p>\n<p>Fill my soul, bask in it<\/p>\n<p>But I am too sensible now<\/p>\n<p>Too based in reality<\/p>\n<p>Too grounded in pain<\/p>\n<p>To see the wonder I loved<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to dance in magic I swung my arms and the world sparkled in it I could see it in lifelike trees Fairies in forests Magic communicating in a cat&#8217;s meow A bird&#8217;s song at daybreak Magic was all around me It swirled me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46900","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47100,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46900\/revisions\/47100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}