{"id":71640,"date":"2020-06-27T21:36:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71640"},"modified":"2020-07-20T22:59:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T02:59:43","slug":"hour-13-by-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-13-by-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 13, By Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Hand<\/p>\n<p>Gazing out the kitchen window, my most strenuous<br \/>\nphysical exertion these days is plunging my hands<br \/>\ninto hot, soapy water, carefully washing each dish,<br \/>\npan, and piece of silverware, no machine allowed here.<\/p>\n<p>As my hands perform their practiced routine<br \/>\nI drift along the currents and eddies<br \/>\nof past, present, and future, timelessly suspended<br \/>\nand sampling like a banquet, spread for my mind to taste.<\/p>\n<p>Memories of my children as babies, my husband and I<br \/>\nas high school teens, myself as a child of the 1970&#8217;s, scroll through<br \/>\nin technicolor, longing tingeing the corners of each memory,<br \/>\nto return and hug a lost loved one, see a favorite vanished place.<\/p>\n<p>Present worries push through every now and then, plans, lists,<br \/>\nand needs demanding head space and time, but are soon<br \/>\nsubmerged beneath the warm water and waves of music,<br \/>\nmy laptop softly playing as my hands do as they have done for forty years,<br \/>\nand I am at peace with the world once again.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Plath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hand Gazing out the kitchen window, my most strenuous physical exertion these days is plunging my hands into hot, soapy water, carefully washing each dish, pan, and piece of silverware, no machine allowed here. As my hands perform their practiced routine I drift along&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71640","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78840,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71640\/revisions\/78840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}