{"id":55442,"date":"2019-06-23T01:28:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T05:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55442"},"modified":"2019-06-23T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T05:28:08","slug":"prompt-18-in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-18-in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt 18:  in the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>in the beginning<\/em><\/p>\n<p>the centre is forever<\/p>\n<p>forever begins in the centre<\/p>\n<p>where love makes us all<\/p>\n<p>in the likeness of itself<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>love wept for gratitude<\/p>\n<p>so that water filled spaces love could not reach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the heartbeat followed:<\/p>\n<p>resonance of drum beats in darkness<\/p>\n<p>filled with prayers of love,<\/p>\n<p>building fires to light the way against fear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>light and love created space<\/p>\n<p>for us to dance Her into life &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The Mother &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>whose body feeds us<\/p>\n<p>even as we defile her<\/p>\n<p>now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(c) r.l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the beginning the centre is forever forever begins in the centre where love makes us all in the likeness of itself &nbsp; love wept for gratitude so that water filled spaces love could not reach. &nbsp; the heartbeat followed: resonance of drum beats in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55442","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55462,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55442\/revisions\/55462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}