{"id":6620,"date":"2015-06-13T09:39:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6620"},"modified":"2015-06-13T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:42:28","slug":"marine-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/marine-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Poem for the Hour One<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s about love.<br \/>\nyou know how it is like<br \/>\nsummer honeymoon as we looked forward<br \/>\nwanting archaeological digs and adventures<br \/>\nrecalls the Pacific invites<br \/>\ndiving into the magnificent marine<br \/>\nrings of wonders<br \/>\nswishing interviews with seaturtles<br \/>\nand colorful fishes<br \/>\nand the once in a blue moon<br \/>\nmarriage with corals<br \/>\ni chose closed circuit rebreather<br \/>\nset my pink snorkels<br \/>\nmask on<br \/>\ntalking to a friend 13 years ago<br \/>\nand now my would be lifetime partner<br \/>\nleft our diving scenes deep, deep, down<br \/>\nthe Tubbataha in Palawan<br \/>\ngift sets of rhythmic kisses in Boracay<br \/>\nnow making marks to join the marine entourage<br \/>\nand call for more witnesses<br \/>\nat the Torres Strait<br \/>\nas broad as our ageless love<br \/>\nunderwater<br \/>\nthe pandora of fire<br \/>\nblessed by the marine ecology<br \/>\nset beyond the depths<br \/>\nof Great Barrier Reef<\/p>\n<p>(photo credit to Great Barrier Reef images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GREAT-BARRIER-REEF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GREAT-BARRIER-REEF.jpg\" alt=\"GREAT BARRIER REEF\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6747\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Poem for the Hour One it&#8217;s about love. you know how it is like summer honeymoon as we looked forward wanting archaeological digs and adventures recalls the Pacific invites diving into the magnificent marine rings of wonders swishing interviews with seaturtles and colorful fishes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620","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\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6620"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7286,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions\/7286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}