{"id":61141,"date":"2020-06-26T23:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T03:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=61141"},"modified":"2020-06-28T08:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:47:33","slug":"gold-dust-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/gold-dust-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Dust Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Poets,<\/p>\n<p>Surreal times for our present poetic adventure. Standing in the backyard, my lungs ached as I swallowed gulps of Saharan desert air, lingering in the dusky gold Texas sky. &#8220;Stay Home,&#8221; read the public safety alert blaring from my cell phone. &#8220;COVID-19 threat is elevated to LEVEL 1(RED)&#8230;The virus is spreading rapidly across the county.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excellent time to stay in and write poetry! This will be my 5th poetic journey with the motley 24-hour Poetry Marathon crew. Oh how I have missed it! I skipped last year during my escape from California to Texas and it left a hole in my soul. Thankful to be back amidst the chaos of 2020. Looking forward to meeting all the brave and beautiful people joining in the madness this year. It&#8217;s always a wild ride. Feel free to reach out if you need someone to keep you going in the wee hours. 3:52 AM can be a dangerous time. It&#8217;s when the gold dust dreams whisper and cackle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Poets, Surreal times for our present poetic adventure. Standing in the backyard, my lungs ached as I swallowed gulps of Saharan desert air, lingering in the dusky gold Texas sky. &#8220;Stay Home,&#8221; read the public safety alert blaring from my cell phone. &#8220;COVID-19 threat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3442],"class_list":["post-61141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","tag-2020poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61141","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76698,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61141\/revisions\/76698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}