{"id":72891,"date":"2020-06-28T00:08:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72891"},"modified":"2020-06-28T00:09:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:09:09","slug":"the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-first\/","title":{"rendered":"The First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gazed at you through silver haze<\/p>\n<p>magnetized by black irises.<\/p>\n<p>In thoughtless wonder I seemed soothed,<\/p>\n<p>drenched in bubbles of soapy security,<\/p>\n<p>until soaked and wrinkled, I gazed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>dumbfounded.<\/p>\n<p>I gazed, naked in a steamy tub,<\/p>\n<p>bathing in shallow water.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72413\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Loves-Purgatory-Veiled-In-Blue-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Loves-Purgatory-Veiled-In-Blue-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Loves-Purgatory-Veiled-In-Blue.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gazed at you through silver haze magnetized by black irises. In thoughtless wonder I seemed soothed, drenched in bubbles of soapy security, until soaked and wrinkled, I gazed&#8230; dumbfounded. I gazed, naked in a steamy tub, bathing in shallow water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891","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\/1362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72944,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891\/revisions\/72944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}