{"id":46948,"date":"2019-06-22T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46948"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:27:34","slug":"2-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/2-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"#2 magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was nothing short of magical,<br \/>\nthe circle of silent dancers swaying as one<br \/>\nwhile one at a time they stepped into the center,<br \/>\nimprovising love and gratitude around<br \/>\nto acknowledge each gift and challenge.<\/p>\n<p>This community evolved across years<br \/>\nwith creativity and grace instilled<br \/>\nby our leader, embracing each<br \/>\nParkinson&#8217;sed partner through<br \/>\ntheir decline. My husband, too.<\/p>\n<p>Shy at first, he quickly grew to love<br \/>\nthis group as I love the dance,<br \/>\nboth predictable and new.<br \/>\nThe community grew close and loving &#8211;<br \/>\ndanced on stage, at the waterfront<br \/>\nin our kitchen, for one another.<\/p>\n<p>When I entered the studio<br \/>\nthree days following his death<br \/>\nthey were circling their season&#8217;s farewell.<br \/>\nBeckoned to their midst, I joined<br \/>\nas honor, love, gratitude and grace<br \/>\nflowed both ways, suspending time<br \/>\nand loss.<\/p>\n<p>It was nothing short of magical.<\/p>\n<p>sarahw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nothing short of magical, the circle of silent dancers swaying as one while one at a time they stepped into the center, improvising love and gratitude around to acknowledge each gift and challenge. This community evolved across years with creativity and grace instilled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46948","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\/1122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47186,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46948\/revisions\/47186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}