{"id":67941,"date":"2020-06-27T16:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67941"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:21:16","slug":"8-repulse-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/8-repulse-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"8. Repulse Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tai Chi must come back into my life.<br \/>\nI crave the peace of that unhurried dance,<br \/>\nthe poems of the names of its moves.<br \/>\nMy teacher always reminds it\u2019s a martial art,<br \/>\na perfection of movement, and energy.<br \/>\nThere is a precise expansion of chi, enough to hold me<br \/>\nas I turn and bend within it<br \/>\nand come to a moment of something falling<br \/>\ninto place &#8211; a key turning a lock.<br \/>\nThe door opening is the practice prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tai Chi must come back into my life. I crave the peace of that unhurried dance, the poems of the names of its moves. My teacher always reminds it\u2019s a martial art, a perfection of movement, and energy. There is a precise expansion of chi,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67941","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\/1503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67951,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67941\/revisions\/67951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}