{"id":87845,"date":"2021-06-26T09:31:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87845"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:14:06","slug":"passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am here alone and<br \/>\nit is twilight \u2013<br \/>\nshadows creep up the walls<br \/>\nto meet me and<br \/>\nclouds pass above me<br \/>\nin the sky.<\/p>\n<p>This, perhaps, is where<br \/>\nI was meant to be:<br \/>\nyesterday, today, tomorrow.<br \/>\nThis, perhaps, is where<br \/>\nthe end begins.<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019ve given it all away &#8212;<br \/>\nthe things, the hopes, the dreams &#8212;<br \/>\nand I am light and untethered.<br \/>\nI am uncommitted and free.<br \/>\nI am, in fact, unspoken for.<\/p>\n<p>Now I take my wings and<br \/>\nI affix them on my back and<br \/>\nI unfurl them and<br \/>\nthe feathers surround me and<br \/>\nI arch those wings and<br \/>\nbegin to beat in rhythm<br \/>\nuntil I feel the lift<br \/>\nand am alight &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am here alone and it is twilight \u2013 shadows creep up the walls to meet me and clouds pass above me in the sky. This, perhaps, is where I was meant to be: yesterday, today, tomorrow. This, perhaps, is where the end begins. Now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87845","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87855,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87845\/revisions\/87855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}