{"id":48245,"date":"2019-06-22T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48245"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:54:22","slug":"poem-4-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/poem-4-acceptance\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 4: &#8220;Acceptance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;Acceptance&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>there it is!<\/div>\n<div>the human.<\/div>\n<div>it sparkles past in the shimmering glimpses<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0of full lips<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0caressing a\u00a0 slightly gap- toothed smile<\/div>\n<div>the joyful hiccup of a laugh<\/div>\n<div>that warms everything around it<\/div>\n<div>like gentle silky wind chimes.<\/div>\n<div>let yourself be you<\/div>\n<div>the best quality art has imperfections<\/div>\n<div>for it may be the sameness of spirit that brings comfort<\/div>\n<div>but it&#8217;s the different that&#8217;s remarkably interesting<\/div>\n<div>so wear your scratches like diamond markings<\/div>\n<div>your freckles like speckles of paint on canvas<\/div>\n<div>and behold<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0the broken beauty so flawed it&#8217;s breathtaking<\/div>\n<div>the everything sameness we all have in common<\/div>\n<div>and the variety of our artistic differences<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Acceptance&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook there it is! the human. it sparkles past in the shimmering glimpses \u00a0of full lips \u00a0caressing a\u00a0 slightly gap- toothed smile the joyful hiccup of a laugh that warms everything around it like gentle silky wind chimes. let yourself be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48245","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\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48259,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48245\/revisions\/48259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}