{"id":49891,"date":"2019-06-22T15:34:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49891"},"modified":"2019-06-22T15:34:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:34:27","slug":"entry-7-half-marathon-21-00-eu-time-meditation-at-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/entry-7-half-marathon-21-00-eu-time-meditation-at-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry 7 Half-Marathon 21.00 EU time \u2014 Meditation At Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n<p>What shall I tell myself this morning,<\/p>\n<p>aside from the obvious fact<\/p>\n<p>about the rain reporting to work<\/p>\n<p>again as it did yesterday, promptly,<\/p>\n<p>two minutes past the hour?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My class does not start till half-eleven,<\/p>\n<p>so may I now return to bed to plan<\/p>\n<p>today\u2019s English grammar lesson?<\/p>\n<p>Who will not show up today? \u00a0Which<\/p>\n<p>students will forget their homework?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The traffic jam is starting this minute;<\/p>\n<p>I can feel it in my water and in my<\/p>\n<p>bones, but we do not honk our horns<\/p>\n<p>here, our bumpers never touch;<\/p>\n<p>I allow my head to sink back to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Outside, the light is growing, birds<\/p>\n<p>will wash themselves in the puddles,<\/p>\n<p>then forage for food, chirping merrily.<\/p>\n<p>No appraisal interview about who<\/p>\n<p>gets to catch the first worm of the day.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. What shall I tell myself this morning, aside from the obvious fact about the rain reporting to work again as it did yesterday, promptly, two minutes past the hour? &nbsp; My class does not start till half-eleven, so may I now return to bed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49891","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50573,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49891\/revisions\/50573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}