{"id":49429,"date":"2019-06-22T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49429"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:52:12","slug":"the-trip-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-trip-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">I was able to visit a place that is out of this world.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">I couldn&#8217;t describe the feeling inside when I saw then light and splendor.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">At first I thought that the lights were so bright, then realize that Love was the light.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">I felt comfort that I&#8217;ve never known, like in my first time there I had been there before.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">And the Peace, it was everywhere! Everyone lived in joy without a care.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">So I decided that I was home. I would go on living there.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">I was sure that ones I&#8217;d loved would come by so we could share\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">But I was told I had to go. Return to my home and thrive<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">I was given a word to live on, Psalm 37 verse 25<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">Then I had to leave His side<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">My opening eyes had proof that I cried.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">But that gift has continued to encourage my stride.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">After my vacation<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31554\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Sky-Not-the-Limit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Sky-Not-the-Limit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Sky-Not-the-Limit-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Sky-Not-the-Limit.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">jj2019 2019 Poetry Marathon<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to visit a place that is out of this world.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t describe the feeling inside when I saw then light and splendor.\u00a0 At first I thought that the lights were so bright, then realize that Love was the light.\u00a0 I felt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,1136,441,5,1],"tags":[2804,23,355],"class_list":["post-49429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","category-uncategorized","tag-2019poetrymarathon","tag-life","tag-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49429","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\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49555,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49429\/revisions\/49555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}