{"id":67560,"date":"2020-06-27T16:14:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67560"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:50:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:50:30","slug":"5-peace-within-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/5-peace-within-me\/","title":{"rendered":"5. Peace Within Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59800\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/evgeni-tcherkasski-v41Z5HCahzo-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/evgeni-tcherkasski-v41Z5HCahzo-unsplash.jpg 2063w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/evgeni-tcherkasski-v41Z5HCahzo-unsplash-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/evgeni-tcherkasski-v41Z5HCahzo-unsplash-768x1117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/evgeni-tcherkasski-v41Z5HCahzo-unsplash-704x1024.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stars float into the ocean as I drive into the night sky<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the nights are as lonely for the creatures in the sea as they are for me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sleepily, I look into the sky as I rock in my canoe.<\/p>\n<p>Listening only to the ripples of the water,<\/p>\n<p>Seeing only the bright silver dots in the endless curtain of darkness.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the beauty I see tonight is overlooked by the creatures of the land.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dipping my fingertips into the refreshingly freezing water,<\/p>\n<p>As I feel the warmth and humidity of the summer breeze against my cheek.<\/p>\n<p>Gazing into the moon, there is a feeling of deep calmness I achieve on this rocking boat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if I will ever gain this sense of peace with myself when I&#8217;m surrounded by the city.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Stars float into the ocean as I drive into the night sky I wonder if the nights are as lonely for the creatures in the sea as they are for me. &nbsp; Sleepily, I look into the sky as I rock in my canoe&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67560","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67560"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68114,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67560\/revisions\/68114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}