{"id":90218,"date":"2021-06-26T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90218"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:22:11","slug":"hour-4-o-the-joy-the-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-4-o-the-joy-the-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4: O the joy! The joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Title and first line from Tagore&#8217;s Red Oleanders)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O the joy! The joy!<\/p>\n<p>Of being, existing<\/p>\n<p>Taking in a breath<\/p>\n<p>Full of petrichor laden air<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And to look!<\/p>\n<p>O to look at the stars<\/p>\n<p>Far off yet warm<\/p>\n<p>From among the trees of past.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hear!<\/p>\n<p>O to hear the stories<\/p>\n<p>Of ages afar<\/p>\n<p>People to people, heart to heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O to speak!<\/p>\n<p>To be able to tell<\/p>\n<p>Stories and poems and<\/p>\n<p>Songs that travelled far.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O the joy! The joy<\/p>\n<p>Of living<\/p>\n<p>Life among the beautiful<\/p>\n<p>The Earth, the Sky and the stars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Title and first line from Tagore&#8217;s Red Oleanders) &nbsp; O the joy! The joy! Of being, existing Taking in a breath Full of petrichor laden air &nbsp; And to look! O to look at the stars Far off yet warm From among the trees of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90218","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90368,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90218\/revisions\/90368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}