{"id":53591,"date":"2019-06-22T20:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53591"},"modified":"2019-06-23T16:03:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:03:34","slug":"private-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/private-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putting moonbeams in my coffee<br \/>\nTo make it taste sweet<br \/>\nI step into the fog on the porch<br \/>\nThe whole world wrapped in a collective hush<\/p>\n<p>Even from this distance<br \/>\nI can smell the fir trees<br \/>\nTheir thick aroma combining<br \/>\nWith my dark liquid and clandestine cigarette<\/p>\n<p>I add to the mist surrounding me<br \/>\nAs the smoke slips from my lungs<br \/>\nThe cold concrete bites my bare feet<br \/>\nPunishment for my quiet sin<\/p>\n<p>I hear the clatter of a canteen on the dock<br \/>\nFollowed by a shout, &#8220;Damn thing!&#8221;<br \/>\nJust an old man heading out for the day<br \/>\nJust as he has done every day<\/p>\n<p>I turn back to the house<br \/>\nRest my cup on the shelf<br \/>\nFlick ash into the cut glass receptacle<br \/>\nThat I took from my grandfather&#8217;s house when he died<\/p>\n<p>This quiet morning<br \/>\nBefore the day begins<br \/>\nIs my greatest joy<br \/>\nMy private ecstacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting moonbeams in my coffee To make it taste sweet I step into the fog on the porch The whole world wrapped in a collective hush Even from this distance I can smell the fir trees Their thick aroma combining With my dark liquid and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53591","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53604,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53591\/revisions\/53604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}