{"id":8692,"date":"2015-06-13T14:25:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8692"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:25:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:25:25","slug":"8692","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/8692\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1398089755cg1ka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-8683 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1398089755cg1ka-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"1398089755cg1ka\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1398089755cg1ka-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1398089755cg1ka.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nInstantly I&#8217;m reminded of my favorite childhood movie,\u00a0&#8220;The Secret Garden&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">That I&#8217;d to get lost in as a young girl<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It consumed my mind and my heart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Caught up in their intensely emotional and magical world<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I&#8217;d be sucked in to the painful undertones<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I remember crying every time<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Even when I memorized the story line<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">There was beauty in their struggles, virtues in their pain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And an extraordinary bond between three children<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Who had come from different worlds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Seeking the same thing, an unyielding love<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Together they challenged their circumstance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">With the hope and determination of even a glance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Of a mysterious garden that enchanted their hopeful hearts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And through the screen, they shared with me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">A vision of love I had never before seen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Through magic and wanderlust<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I had been given the key to my own mystery<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The key to perseverance, allowing me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">To continue to chase the beauty in spite of my misplaced trust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instantly I&#8217;m reminded of my favorite childhood movie,\u00a0&#8220;The Secret Garden&#8221; That I&#8217;d to get lost in as a young girl It consumed my mind and my heart Caught up in their intensely emotional and magical world I&#8217;d be sucked in to the painful undertones I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8875,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions\/8875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}