{"id":8399,"date":"2015-06-13T13:33:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:02:22","slug":"into-the-kyoto-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/into-the-kyoto-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Kyoto Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">they see me, and yet; I am invisible<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">to be pulled, stretched, and used<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">like a\u00a0worn\u00a0but beautiful canvas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">each new day, the same ritual<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">tucked, painted, squeezed,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">but that is the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I am to serve, and to hold court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I\u00a0push my spirit and hide it deep within<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">so it cannot see<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">what lies before me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">but that is the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I repeat the rituals day after day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">in preparation,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">because that is the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Before each night falls, I ready myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I wash, I dress, and I shuffle into the night<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">because that is the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">By: KMH 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>they see me, and yet; I am invisible to be pulled, stretched, and used like a\u00a0worn\u00a0but beautiful canvas each new day, the same ritual tucked, painted, squeezed, but that is the way. I am to serve, and to hold court. I\u00a0push my spirit and hide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-marathon-poem","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399","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\/643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8697,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions\/8697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}