{"id":87791,"date":"2021-06-26T09:28:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87791"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:28:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:28:21","slug":"glimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/glimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Glimmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We create splendid things purely by accident:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The just-crisp waffle still tender on the inside,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">awaiting the slow, golden pour of maple syrup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The way sunlight glimmers on the doorknob<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">polished ahead of the visit from your childhood friend<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">who rushes into your arms for a celebratory embrace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the pink and orange neon of the Sleepy Hollow Motel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">clicks on just as you approach and the gleaming arrow<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">feels like you\u2019re driving right into 1956, one more time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then waking from a dream rife with confusion,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the wrong people in the right places, leave you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with the assurance you no longer need to consider them.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We create splendid things purely by accident: The just-crisp waffle still tender on the inside,\u00a0 awaiting the slow, golden pour of maple syrup. The way sunlight glimmers on the doorknob polished ahead of the visit from your childhood friend who rushes into your arms for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87791","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\/2858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87806,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87791\/revisions\/87806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}