{"id":71969,"date":"2020-06-27T21:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71969"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:59:46","slug":"west-coast-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/west-coast-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt 13 (Half Marathon 2 Hour 1) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One. Two.<br \/>\nOne and two.<br \/>\nOne and two.<br \/>\nOne. Two.<\/p>\n<p>I move my legs, weary from the week<br \/>\nMatching my partner, foot to foot<br \/>\nAt work and at home, I like to be independent<br \/>\nDetermining my actions, resenting hierarchy<br \/>\nBut here, I follow<br \/>\nIt\u2019s Wednesday night, the end of a long day<br \/>\nAnd there is nothing more comforting than letting my partner guide me<br \/>\nTonight, I leave my fate in their hands<\/p>\n<p>Freeze. Turn. Under the arm.<br \/>\nAnchor in place. Keep your core tight.<\/p>\n<p>The instructor\u2019s sharp voice jolts me into attention<br \/>\nI\u2019m following but I cannot be complacent<br \/>\nI straighten my back and look my partner in the eye<br \/>\nAnd as we glide down the long hall<br \/>\nFor the remaining few moments of the song, we move as one<\/p>\n<p>We anchor back in close contact<br \/>\nAs the clock strikes midnight, the tiredness leaves my body<br \/>\nOne and two. We anchor in close position.<br \/>\nThis dance has ended<br \/>\nBut I feel energized for the next<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 13 (Half Marathon 2 Hour 1) One. Two. One and two. One and two. One. Two. I move my legs, weary from the week Matching my partner, foot to foot At work and at home, I like to be independent Determining my actions, resenting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71969","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\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72013,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71969\/revisions\/72013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}