{"id":89563,"date":"2021-06-26T11:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89563"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:27:19","slug":"the-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-created\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 3 &#8211; The Created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the dirt.<br \/>\nThe soil which sustains life:<br \/>\nTwisting roots anchoring,<br \/>\nGathering and delivering.<br \/>\nThe bugs which feed it all:<br \/>\nLaboriously collecting,<br \/>\nClimbing, marching, dying.<br \/>\nLook at the dirt and say:<br \/>\n\u201cThis is good.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Look at the water.<br \/>\nThe streams that ripple:<br \/>\nCleansing and clear,<br \/>\nQuenching and carrying.<br \/>\nThe seas that thunder:<br \/>\nDeep, dark, and ineffable<br \/>\nAlive with mystery and motion.<br \/>\nLook at the water and say:<br \/>\n\u201cThis is good.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Look at the sky.<br \/>\nThe stars that blink:<br \/>\nDistant and vast and tiny<br \/>\nSketching myths across void.<br \/>\nThe universe that shimmers:<br \/>\nEncompassing, expanding, creating,<br \/>\nAlight with life and fire.<br \/>\nLook at the sky and say:<br \/>\n\u201cThis is good.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Look at yourself.<br \/>\nYour body which holds your form:<br \/>\nBreathing, moving, digesting,<br \/>\nDancing, speaking, healing.<br \/>\nYour mind which is the truest you:<br \/>\nPerceiving, analyzing, organizing,<br \/>\nFeeling, loving, creating.<br \/>\nLook at yourself and wonder:<br \/>\n\u201cIs this good?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the dirt. The soil which sustains life: Twisting roots anchoring, Gathering and delivering. The bugs which feed it all: Laboriously collecting, Climbing, marching, dying. Look at the dirt and say: \u201cThis is good.\u201d Look at the water. The streams that ripple: Cleansing and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89563","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91392,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89563\/revisions\/91392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}