{"id":49073,"date":"2019-06-22T13:28:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49073"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:44:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:44:59","slug":"vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>. . . and I look down to realize I am rowing a boat.\r\nMy arms create waves that loop white on blue-purple water.\r\nWith each stroke, I come closer to the shore where the castle stands.\r\nThree more heaves, two more, and this final one come\r\nbefore I step onto the crag. \r\n\r\nDoors immediately open to me, and I look up high as I enter\r\nthis castle. Treading upon the floor of a chess board, I note \r\nbillowing clouds through the windows above opening to the sky.\r\nOne step speeds into hundreds, and I stand in the center of \r\nhallways, but which to walk?\r\n\r\nDown one hallway I come upon self-portraits: two years old, then\r\nfifteen, then twenty, thirty five, fifty into ages beyond me now.\r\nAm I seeing my future? I wonder, for on the wall opposite I find \r\nthe memories for those years. Memories yes - but I don't recall until \r\njust now, this walk, this moment.\r\n\r\nThe hallway ends, and I stand on yet another crag, this a \r\nmountain with a path back down the hill to where I've been or \r\na new boat with billowing sails, positioned towards the now setting sun.\r\nThe day has passed. Which choice do I make?<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . and I look down to realize I am rowing a boat. My arms create waves that loop white on blue-purple water. With each stroke, I come closer to the shore where the castle stands. Three more heaves, two more, and this final&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49073","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\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49318,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49073\/revisions\/49318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}