{"id":48508,"date":"2019-06-22T12:14:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48508"},"modified":"2019-06-23T02:25:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:25:16","slug":"mystified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/mystified\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/80D8DA91-DF7B-457F-BBB1-272AABD7B2F8-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/80D8DA91-DF7B-457F-BBB1-272AABD7B2F8-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/80D8DA91-DF7B-457F-BBB1-272AABD7B2F8-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each day I look around me, searching<br \/>\nfor those little things that lend<br \/>\na burst of joy,<br \/>\na feeling of refreshment<br \/>\nto a stale day. <\/p>\n<p>Like  a moth on an orange slice, I am captivated<br \/>\nby those small things that<br \/>\ntoo often go unnoticed.<br \/>\nI may feel small, but I am surrounded<br \/>\nby things bigger than myself,<br \/>\nI become that moth<\/p>\n<p>I feel the sticky wedge beneath my legs,<br \/>\nI smell the citrus in the air, overpowering.<br \/>\nI see my wings, gargantuan next to my small frame<br \/>\nbut more beautiful than anything I\u2019ve seen before<br \/>\nI taste the tart juice, and savor this moment of clarity <\/p>\n<p>We are surrounded by adventure and amazement<br \/>\nthough it is not always our own.<br \/>\nHow often do you stop to absorb it?<br \/>\nTo really appreciate it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each day I look around me, searching for those little things that lend a burst of joy, a feeling of refreshment to a stale day. Like a moth on an orange slice, I am captivated by those small things that too often go unnoticed. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48508","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\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55791,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48508\/revisions\/55791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}