{"id":67226,"date":"2020-06-27T15:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67226"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:00:47","slug":"season-of-the-poets-hour-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/season-of-the-poets-hour-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of the Poets (Hour 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Season of the Poets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They came together on a summer day,<br \/>\ntumbling and rambling across the screen.<\/p>\n<p>They followed prompts or ignored prompts,<br \/>\nrhymed or roamed free.<\/p>\n<p>They meshed and melded,<br \/>\ncaromed and caroused.<\/p>\n<p>An odd moment this Season of the Poets.<br \/>\nNo commonality among them \u2014 not of time nor temperature,<br \/>\nnor interest nor age.<\/p>\n<p>Still they came.<\/p>\n<p>They came for the words and the emotions and the challenge.<br \/>\nOn this day-long season, poets flourished.<br \/>\nThey relished and resented each creative hour.<\/p>\n<p>Hope, despair, memory, fantasy,<br \/>\nwhimsy, humor, truth, and irony<br \/>\nmarked the season.<\/p>\n<p>The poets owned the season.<br \/>\nThe season owned the poets.<br \/>\nMagical, frustrating, exhausting, exhilarating.<\/p>\n<p>Poets celebrate this sacred season in silence,<br \/>\nexploring thoughts, seizing words,<br \/>\ndecorating isolation with ideas.<\/p>\n<p>An when the day is done<br \/>\nand the season is over<br \/>\nthey emerge with renewed energy<br \/>\nready to revisit<br \/>\nthe Season of the Poets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season of the Poets They came together on a summer day, tumbling and rambling across the screen. They followed prompts or ignored prompts, rhymed or roamed free. They meshed and melded, caromed and caroused. An odd moment this Season of the Poets. No commonality among&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67226","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67248,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67226\/revisions\/67248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}