{"id":56583,"date":"2019-06-23T04:59:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56583"},"modified":"2019-06-23T04:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:59:43","slug":"woman-at-the-center-hour-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/woman-at-the-center-hour-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman at the Center (Hour 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cataclysmic cloud of color,<br \/>\nof racing people rushing<br \/>\nthrough the pulse of a passing moment.<\/p>\n<p>She escapes them all by<br \/>\nclaiming stillness at the center for herself.<\/p>\n<p>The faces fade, features<br \/>\nblurred to distorted colors, neon, pastel.<\/p>\n<p>The turn of their bodies become<br \/>\nelongated brushstrokes,<br \/>\nthe luminescent details of petaled flora<br \/>\nin a breathing oil painting.<\/p>\n<p>From within her garden of cosmic fire,<br \/>\nshe renders the strange world, safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55532\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wei-ding-1560408-unsplash-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wei-ding-1560408-unsplash-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wei-ding-1560408-unsplash-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wei-ding-1560408-unsplash-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wei-ding-1560408-unsplash-2-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cataclysmic cloud of color, of racing people rushing through the pulse of a passing moment. She escapes them all by claiming stillness at the center for herself. The faces fade, features blurred to distorted colors, neon, pastel. The turn of their bodies become elongated brushstrokes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56583","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56603,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56583\/revisions\/56603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}