{"id":56861,"date":"2019-06-23T05:38:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56861"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:38:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:38:16","slug":"balance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/balance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Balance<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Corpus Cristi<\/em> is tomorrow, noon on the dot.<\/p>\n<p>Church bells will chime, ringing in people who will flood<\/p>\n<p>the pews and spill into the aisle, standing room<\/p>\n<p>only. I rub my eyes and blink real hard, making<\/p>\n<p>the bright lights blur. Stayed up all night writing<\/p>\n<p>poems that wouldn\u2019t leave my head, imprinted<\/p>\n<p>on my heart. I stare at the marble floor, tracing<\/p>\n<p>the little rocks with my eyes, trying not to fall<\/p>\n<p>asleep, the homily\u2019s words just a buzz in my ear,<\/p>\n<p>an echo in my heart that I fail to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balance &nbsp; Corpus Cristi is tomorrow, noon on the dot. Church bells will chime, ringing in people who will flood the pews and spill into the aisle, standing room only. I rub my eyes and blink real hard, making the bright lights blur. Stayed up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56861","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56863,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56861\/revisions\/56863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}