{"id":50580,"date":"2019-06-22T15:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50580"},"modified":"2019-06-23T20:51:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:51:47","slug":"i-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/i-can\/","title":{"rendered":"I can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s noon<br \/>\nthe leaves sway<br \/>\nthe air sings a lullaby<br \/>\nand I look up at the sun<br \/>\nlike its a reflection<br \/>\nof what I can be.<br \/>\nI smile.<br \/>\nLet me shine<br \/>\nenough<br \/>\nnot enough to burn<br \/>\nbut just enough to gift<br \/>\nthe day.<br \/>\nI can endow these birds<br \/>\nthe lilies<br \/>\nthe bees<br \/>\nthe butterflies<br \/>\nthe stray<br \/>\nwith a sense of time.<br \/>\nWith my soft rays<br \/>\nI can kiss your cheek<br \/>\nbefore the other takes her shift<br \/>\nand I can be the one<br \/>\nto wake you<br \/>\nso you can see me first.<br \/>\nI rise<br \/>\nI rise<br \/>\nI rise<br \/>\nI rise<br \/>\nI can give all my love to the Little blue-green baby<br \/>\nso beauty flourishes its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s noon the leaves sway the air sings a lullaby and I look up at the sun like its a reflection of what I can be. I smile. Let me shine enough not enough to burn but just enough to gift the day. I can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50580","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50646,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50580\/revisions\/50646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}