{"id":54235,"date":"2019-06-22T22:29:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54235"},"modified":"2019-06-22T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:29:56","slug":"never-lost-hour-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/never-lost-hour-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Lost, Hour 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The land knows you, even when you are lost<br \/>\nIn times of uncertainty, seek the Wild<br \/>\nSearch the rolling hills, the craggy peaks, the blistering desert for guidance<\/p>\n<p>There are lessons if we remember how to listen<br \/>\nWisdom embedded in sunbaked stone<br \/>\nIn thick bark of sentinel Sequoia<br \/>\nIn ferns unfurling through ash,<br \/>\nIn lush wildfire aftermath<br \/>\nIn swollen mountain runoff streams<br \/>\nIn twilight screech of owl<br \/>\nIn ecological balance of all species<\/p>\n<p>The land knows you<br \/>\nKnows your ancestors<br \/>\nKnows your lineage and all that&#8217;s come before<br \/>\nKnows your power and your insignificance<br \/>\nKnows your place in context of the greater web of all life<br \/>\nIn context of all that is and all that&#8217;s ever been<\/p>\n<p>An omnipresent witness<br \/>\nTo endless cycles of evolution and extinction,<br \/>\nCreation and cataclysm,<br \/>\nGrowth and entropy,<br \/>\nThe primordial ebb and flow of everything<\/p>\n<p>When in doubt, sit under a tree<br \/>\nLean back, watch branches sway in gusting wind,<br \/>\nWatch leaves dance to forest floor<\/p>\n<p>The only thing truly lost is our connection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The land knows you, even when you are lost In times of uncertainty, seek the Wild Search the rolling hills, the craggy peaks, the blistering desert for guidance There are lessons if we remember how to listen Wisdom embedded in sunbaked stone In thick bark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54235","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\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54418,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54235\/revisions\/54418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}