{"id":8868,"date":"2015-06-13T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8868"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:27:16","slug":"sunset-and-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/sunset-and-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset and Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about the sunset that makes us weave dreams<br \/>\nAs the day bids adieu to welcome a calm evening anew<br \/>\nStaring at its magnanimous display of stunning hues,<br \/>\nTakes you to a dreamland, a nameless place, another undiscovered world<br \/>\nPerhaps a new frontier beyond your wildest imagination.<\/p>\n<p>I can paint a marvelous landscape through my dancing words<br \/>\nWhile looking at such splendor, the Master Artist&#8217;s touch<br \/>\nRhyming words, screaming to come out of my head,<br \/>\nWhy do a lot of hearts have this certain fondness of you dear sunset?<br \/>\nCould be that you are God&#8217;s manifestation of His poetic art.<\/p>\n<p>Those cottony clouds of different formations make you look lovelier<br \/>\nWordsmiths like me create our masterpieces out of just admiring you from a far<br \/>\nThe gentle breeze brushing my warm cheeks blush at the mere sight of you,<br \/>\nSuch grandeur cannot be replaced by anything as beautiful as this scene unfolding right in front of my naked eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Author\/Poet Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo<br \/>\nPhilippines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about the sunset that makes us weave dreams As the day bids adieu to welcome a calm evening anew Staring at its magnanimous display of stunning hues, Takes you to a dreamland, a nameless place, another undiscovered world Perhaps a new frontier&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868","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\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8885,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}