{"id":7205,"date":"2015-06-13T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:00:49","slug":"3-mermaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/3-mermaid\/","title":{"rendered":"#3 &#8211; Mermaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the ethreal sunlight flows down through the deep blue glass<br \/>\ncascading brilliantly across my face<br \/>\ni smile<br \/>\nclose my eyes tightly<br \/>\nbasking in the warmth shining below<br \/>\nsoaking in the rays as they dance on my cheeks<br \/>\nglittering beneath the surface<br \/>\ni crave this<br \/>\nit beckons to me<br \/>\ncalls me upward<br \/>\ni rise towards it to unmask my face from the still surface<br \/>\nbreaking the barrier between wet &amp; dry<br \/>\nemerging as the droplets roll down<br \/>\nmy face now met with air &amp; sun<br \/>\nmy lungs fill &amp; I close my eyes once again<br \/>\nlifting my chin towards the fire in the sky<br \/>\nfeeling the current beneath &amp; the wind above<br \/>\nheld briefly\u00a0between two worlds<br \/>\nallowing the beams to radiate on my skin<br \/>\nto permeate my soul<br \/>\nto fill up my heart<br \/>\ni soak it all in<br \/>\nas the glistening begins to fade beyond the horizon<br \/>\nthe last trace bouncing off my tail<br \/>\nas i dive deep into the darkness<br \/>\nback to the world below<br \/>\nuntil the next rising<br \/>\nwhen i shall bask again<br \/>\nin the light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the ethreal sunlight flows down through the deep blue glass cascading brilliantly across my face i smile close my eyes tightly basking in the warmth shining below soaking in the rays as they dance on my cheeks glittering beneath the surface i crave this it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[464,461,462,460,408,463,124,83,466,465,467],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-464","tag-depth","tag-dive-deep","tag-mermaid","tag-ocean","tag-poem-three","tag-sea","tag-sun","tag-sunlight","tag-sunshine","tag-warmth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","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\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}