{"id":6730,"date":"2015-06-13T09:43:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2015-06-13T09:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:49:51","slug":"home-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/home-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me out! Let me out!<br \/>\nI closed my eyes tight<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t breathe, I can&#8217;t breathe<br \/>\nI kick and I struggle<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sinking, I&#8217;m sinking<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Hush little one, just let it go&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI stop for a second<br \/>\nI open my eyes<br \/>\nThe blue coral twinkles at me<br \/>\nThe shy clam rushes its head in<br \/>\nThe seahorse floats on by<br \/>\nI reach out and<br \/>\nfeel the butterfly fish with my nose<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Enjoy the moment little one&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI swim around for a while<br \/>\nI see blurry images<br \/>\nof\u00a0bigger fishes and creatures<br \/>\nwhose names I do not know<br \/>\nI eye them suspiciously then<br \/>\nI stretch out\u00a0like a starfish<br \/>\nI curl up like a blow-fish<br \/>\nI glide along like an eel<br \/>\nThe bigger fishes stare at me<br \/>\nI smile at them but<br \/>\nThey quickly turn away<br \/>\nI touch my\u00a0body<br \/>\nOh my, it&#8217;s silky smooth<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have hands<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re flippers<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have legs<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a big fat tail<br \/>\nI do a back flip and<br \/>\nI laugh<br \/>\n<em>I <\/em>can do a\u00a0back flip!<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Oh little one, Welcome Home!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me out! Let me out! I closed my eyes tight I can&#8217;t breathe, I can&#8217;t breathe I kick and I struggle I&#8217;m sinking, I&#8217;m sinking &#8220;Hush little one, just let it go&#8221; &nbsp; I stop for a second I open my eyes The blue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[335],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-underwater-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","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\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}