{"id":62223,"date":"2020-06-27T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62223"},"modified":"2020-07-16T09:25:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T13:25:42","slug":"hour-1-the-music-is-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-1-the-music-is-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1: The Music is Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 1: The Music is Enough<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Riding the Coltrane highway through an almost midnight snow,<\/p>\n<p>driving with you<\/p>\n<p>into an inked-out sky laced<\/p>\n<p>with snow, its blanketing white beauty<\/p>\n<p>potentially fatal<\/p>\n<p>when the head is turned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dim dashboard lights barely skim<\/p>\n<p>your face in my peripheral vision.<\/p>\n<p>Open <em>closed<\/em>, your eyes see<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>other times<\/p>\n<p>other places<\/p>\n<p>their faces<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>pounding the blacks and blues<\/p>\n<p>out of their souls.<\/p>\n<p>A sigh.<\/p>\n<p>A low hum of appreciation punctuates the night<\/p>\n<p>rhythmic interruptions of my struggle<\/p>\n<p>to translate an aural narrative<\/p>\n<p>played in a language I don&#8217;t speak.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Framed by silence between us,<\/p>\n<p>the music is enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 1: The Music is Enough &nbsp; Riding the Coltrane highway through an almost midnight snow, driving with you into an inked-out sky laced with snow, its blanketing white beauty potentially fatal when the head is turned. &nbsp; The dim dashboard lights barely skim your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62223","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\/1383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78663,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62223\/revisions\/78663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}