{"id":88408,"date":"2021-06-26T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88408"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:42:19","slug":"dreams-sleep-and-adulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/dreams-sleep-and-adulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams, sleep and adulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My joy in this brilliant morning<br \/>\nIs tempered by many things<br \/>\nThe earliness of my waking<br \/>\nMy eyes folding shut<br \/>\nEven while my fingers<br \/>\nFind<br \/>\nEach<br \/>\nKey&#8230;stroke<br \/>\nThe heat of a summer<br \/>\nCome on too early<br \/>\nBurnt leaves on a plum tree<br \/>\n(how can that be?)<br \/>\nAn idea of the light<br \/>\nSparkling off the lake<br \/>\nLicking ice cream<br \/>\nTempered by more adult responsibilities<br \/>\nA promise to do this<br \/>\nGo here<br \/>\nDo that<br \/>\nMost of all<br \/>\nStifled<br \/>\nBy the threat of toxic heat<\/p>\n<p>So<br \/>\nInstead, I lay down my head<br \/>\nGo back to bed<br \/>\nAnd dream of the clean blue lake<br \/>\nThat really exists only now in my dreams<br \/>\nThe truth a sadly diminished comparison<br \/>\nTo the one of my memory<br \/>\nAnd get a few more hours sleep <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My joy in this brilliant morning Is tempered by many things The earliness of my waking My eyes folding shut Even while my fingers Find Each Key&#8230;stroke The heat of a summer Come on too early Burnt leaves on a plum tree (how can that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-88408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88408","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89207,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88408\/revisions\/89207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}