{"id":63274,"date":"2020-06-27T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63274"},"modified":"2020-06-27T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:59:33","slug":"pandemic-staycation-2020-half-marathon-hour-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/pandemic-staycation-2020-half-marathon-hour-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Staycation   2020 Half-Marathon Hour Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take one morning, sift lightly<\/p>\n<p>and walk past silent houses, glistening dew, and twittering birds.<\/p>\n<p>Add one glass of orange juice, accompanied by a dandelion<\/p>\n<p>Gulp and think of next hours.<\/p>\n<p>Open the windows and doors while the sun fills the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Add the chores of childhood, refreshing and earnest.<\/p>\n<p>Mix in one salad or sandwich or soup at midday,<\/p>\n<p>the same ingredients contributing to each all week.<\/p>\n<p>Add an hour of reading encyclopedias, cookbooks, long-kept magazines<\/p>\n<p>and lower to a simmer, leading to a nap.<\/p>\n<p>Gently check after 45 minutes, and slowly remove to a windowsill.<\/p>\n<p>Check the breezes, watch the passing clouds, listen for dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Finish the salad or sandwich or soup from earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Let the evening sun quietly set.<\/p>\n<p>Summer Vacation: 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take one morning, sift lightly and walk past silent houses, glistening dew, and twittering birds. Add one glass of orange juice, accompanied by a dandelion Gulp and think of next hours. Open the windows and doors while the sun fills the sky. Add the chores&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63274","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\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63435,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63274\/revisions\/63435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}