{"id":49402,"date":"2019-06-22T13:36:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49402"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:45:25","slug":"together-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/together-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Together, we"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big powerful horses<br \/>\nloudly stomp their hooves<br \/>\ndeep into the earth<br \/>\nbeside the creek.<br \/>\nAfraid, I take refuge<br \/>\nin a prairie<br \/>\nfilled with saplings and boulders<br \/>\nand watch from afar their mourning ritual.<br \/>\nThe horses are grieving \u2013 they lift their heads<br \/>\nand begin to neigh,<br \/>\ntheir voices echoing about me.<br \/>\nSoftly I begin to sing<br \/>\nmy own song of loss.<br \/>\nI look again at the horses &#8212;<br \/>\ntheir dappled hides,<br \/>\ntheir flicking ears,<br \/>\ntheir gentle eyes,<br \/>\nand my fear lifts<br \/>\nand I run toward them<br \/>\nand I sing to them<br \/>\nand I touch them<br \/>\nand we dance together<br \/>\nunder an enchanted sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big powerful horses loudly stomp their hooves deep into the earth beside the creek. Afraid, I take refuge in a prairie filled with saplings and boulders and watch from afar their mourning ritual. The horses are grieving \u2013 they lift their heads and begin to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49402","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49496,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49402\/revisions\/49496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}