{"id":69639,"date":"2020-06-27T18:29:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69639"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:29:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:29:20","slug":"moonshadow-song-an-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/moonshadow-song-an-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonshadow song &#8211; an inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I still long<br \/>\nfor the big brown chair,<br \/>\nmy parents used to own.<br \/>\nIt was round, ribbed,<br \/>\nyellow mustard corduroy.<br \/>\nI\u2019d spin one way, then the other,<br \/>\npause, eleven, listening<br \/>\nto Cat Stevens sing.<br \/>\nLosing everything,<br \/>\nhands, eyes, legs, mouth,<br \/>\nsounded like nothing to fear<br \/>\nunder a benevolent,<br \/>\nfaithful light the way<br \/>\nhe sang it.<br \/>\nMoonshadows<br \/>\nconnect my life<br \/>\nlike a thread<br \/>\nchaining each and every moment.<br \/>\nOnce a full moon followed me<br \/>\nover snowy Nottingham roads,<br \/>\ntrees limbs encased in inches of ice<br \/>\nwhile that song played<br \/>\nand I knew I might slip<br \/>\nor slide, but I\u2019d be alright.<br \/>\nI long for that old<br \/>\nbrown chair still.<br \/>\nI want to curl up<br \/>\nand unspin<br \/>\nthis crazy world<br \/>\nI\u2019ve grown up in<br \/>\nand listen to every song<br \/>\non that album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I still long for the big brown chair, my parents used to own. It was round, ribbed, yellow mustard corduroy. I\u2019d spin one way, then the other, pause, eleven, listening to Cat Stevens sing. Losing everything, hands, eyes, legs, mouth, sounded like nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1359,"featured_media":24835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[680],"class_list":["post-69639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69639","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\/1359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69694,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69639\/revisions\/69694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}