{"id":50562,"date":"2019-06-22T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50562"},"modified":"2019-06-22T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:36:01","slug":"underwater-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/underwater-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Underwater birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like underwater birds,<br \/>\nwe used our wings<br \/>\nto skim the surface<br \/>\nof the pond and then<br \/>\nto dive deep<br \/>\ninto its depths.<\/p>\n<p>The dark waters enveloped us,<br \/>\nprotected us,<br \/>\nfreeing us from the weight<br \/>\nof everyday legs.<\/p>\n<p>Above us, owls hooted from oak trees<br \/>\nbelow the purple of the sky<br \/>\nand bats emerged from caves<br \/>\nto swoop through the stillness.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to tell you then<br \/>\nhow mistaken I\u2019d been<br \/>\nbut you had already seen<br \/>\nthe falling stars of tomorrow<br \/>\nand knew the way to Amen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like underwater birds, we used our wings to skim the surface of the pond and then to dive deep into its depths. The dark waters enveloped us, protected us, freeing us from the weight of everyday legs. Above us, owls hooted from oak trees below&#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-50562","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\/50562","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=50562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50587,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50562\/revisions\/50587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}