{"id":66022,"date":"2020-06-27T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66022"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:12:03","slug":"the-perfect-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-perfect-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eyes drift open<\/p>\n<p>Yawns fly from my lips with a buzz<\/p>\n<p>My arms stretch the lengths of the earth<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s time to go<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Car gulping down gas<\/p>\n<p>My map tattooed into my skin<\/p>\n<p>Icy water ready at a snap<\/p>\n<p>Music swelling and falling<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A cast of characters take the stage<\/p>\n<p>My confidants, soldiers at war<\/p>\n<p>The war is a good time<\/p>\n<p>Amazing food in abundance<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A woman named Joy stretches my face into a smile<\/p>\n<p>Laughter so true my stomach is rock hard<\/p>\n<p>Glittery rain falling<\/p>\n<p>Warm in the arms of friends<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life becomes a spy movie<\/p>\n<p>Chasing villains that aren&#8217;t there<\/p>\n<p>But we feel important<\/p>\n<p>We craft gadgets and gizmos<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the day closes we will not relinquish<\/p>\n<p>There are more jokes<\/p>\n<p>More hijinks<\/p>\n<p>More happiness<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are kids once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyes drift open Yawns fly from my lips with a buzz My arms stretch the lengths of the earth And it&#8217;s time to go &nbsp; Car gulping down gas My map tattooed into my skin Icy water ready at a snap Music swelling and falling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66022","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\/1204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67786,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66022\/revisions\/67786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}