{"id":67245,"date":"2020-06-27T15:32:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67245"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:32:36","slug":"season-of-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/season-of-the-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of the Soul (Hour 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A notion in your stomach,<br \/>\na truth spoken by the lonely trees, undressed in winter.<\/p>\n<p>The weight of physical being,<br \/>\nladen with existence,<br \/>\nburdened by flesh and bone,<br \/>\norganic hindrance.<\/p>\n<p>The subduing forces that bind us,<br \/>\nthat pull things towards the middle.<br \/>\nSilent acts that close the carnation\u2019s petals<br \/>\nand draw you to the center of yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The fetal contortions of dying things,<br \/>\ncurling creases of burning paper,<br \/>\na threatened serpent folding over itself.<\/p>\n<p>The iron in your blood is lured<br \/>\nby an ancient magnetism,<br \/>\nan inner gravity,<br \/>\na plum set to the navel of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The water of your being falling, lower, lower,<br \/>\nthrough the bottom of every well,<br \/>\ncrawling deeper than death,<br \/>\nmighty rivers of the Underworld lead<br \/>\nto the primordial clay and mud of the earth,<br \/>\nto the roots of being, pulsating in the season of the soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A notion in your stomach, a truth spoken by the lonely trees, undressed in winter. The weight of physical being, laden with existence, burdened by flesh and bone, organic hindrance. The subduing forces that bind us, that pull things towards the middle. Silent acts that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67245","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67276,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67245\/revisions\/67276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}