{"id":65895,"date":"2020-06-27T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65895"},"modified":"2020-06-27T14:32:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:32:36","slug":"in-the-villa-where-we-danced-villanelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/in-the-villa-where-we-danced-villanelle\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Villa Where We Danced (villanelle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven hundred meters from the sea,<br \/>\nUnder the red gold sun,<br \/>\nIn the villa where we danced,<\/p>\n<p>He sits quietly, sipping tea<br \/>\nWith his white shirt undone.<br \/>\nSeven hundred meters from the sea<\/p>\n<p>He is relaxed and does not notice me,<br \/>\nMy life mate, my special one.<br \/>\nIn the villa where we danced<\/p>\n<p>After our honeymoon. His goatee<br \/>\nIs white, as age has won.<br \/>\nSeven hundred meters from the sea<\/p>\n<p>I think of what we used to be<br \/>\nAnd all that we have overcome<br \/>\nIn the villa where we danced.<\/p>\n<p>We were young once but now we<br \/>\nAre old and soft as life is done.<br \/>\nSeven hundred meters from the sea<br \/>\nIn the villa where we danced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven hundred meters from the sea, Under the red gold sun, In the villa where we danced, He sits quietly, sipping tea With his white shirt undone. Seven hundred meters from the sea He is relaxed and does not notice me, My life mate, my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65895","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\/1504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66471,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65895\/revisions\/66471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}