{"id":72225,"date":"2020-06-27T22:28:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72225"},"modified":"2020-06-27T22:28:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:28:19","slug":"the-call-of-the-wild-hour-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-call-of-the-wild-hour-14\/","title":{"rendered":"The Call Of The Wild &#8211; Hour 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She yelled at me to come<br \/>\nTo run to her arms wide open<br \/>\nTo spread my wings by her side<br \/>\nTo bathe in her sensations<br \/>\nWhen I was a child<br \/>\nBut I was taught to fear her and her dark secrets<br \/>\nWhat terrors does she hide?<br \/>\nI am too young and weak to be with her<br \/>\nI must wait till I grow strong<\/p>\n<p>I am no child no longer<br \/>\nI have denied her call a thousand times<br \/>\nNow she barely whispers<br \/>\nI am no longer afraid<br \/>\nBut I am no longer excited either<br \/>\nI run to her searching for the salvation she promised<br \/>\nBut all I hear is the sound of my own helpless voice<br \/>\nStill, she takes me in<br \/>\nStill, the wilderness gives me quiet respite<br \/>\nFrom the chaos of civilisation<br \/>\nAs Robin Wall Kimmerer said,<br \/>\n\u201cThe land knows you,<br \/>\nEven when you are lost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She yelled at me to come To run to her arms wide open To spread my wings by her side To bathe in her sensations When I was a child But I was taught to fear her and her dark secrets What terrors does she&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72225","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\/1399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72252,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72225\/revisions\/72252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}