{"id":8009,"date":"2015-06-13T12:18:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:18:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:18:53","slug":"typhoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/typhoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I still recall how loud the wind<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

blew as it slew the wire<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

screens around the terrace,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

how everything screamed<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

and howled into my eyes wide<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

open, unafraid<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

while they told me that the<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

banging of the door, the same sound<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

when the old ones were raving,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

was the dark bad man from behind<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

the sacred tree, angry at our<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

non-belief, our loud music,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

our short skirts, our lack of fear.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It was easy to wonder why, even then,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

the words carried on the wind,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

which only I could hear, spoke in<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

a language warmer than fire,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

heavier than eyes full of sleep.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(c) Ella Wagemakers, 18.18 Dutch time (= 12.20 EST in the US)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I still recall how loud the wind blew as it slew the wire screens around the terrace, how everything screamed and howled into my eyes wide open, unafraid \u00a0 while they told me that the banging of the door, the same sound when the old…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8026,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions\/8026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}