{"id":91649,"date":"2021-06-26T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91649"},"modified":"2021-06-26T14:04:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:04:04","slug":"shhhhhhhhh-hour-five-a-four-line-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/shhhhhhhhh-hour-five-a-four-line-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Shhhhhhhhh! (Hour Five, A Four Line Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-91888\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shhh-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shhh-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shhh.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To<\/p>\n<p>hear, I thought, would change<\/p>\n<p>life for the better,<\/p>\n<p>but I learned silence is still golden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(A four line poem is composed of four lines, with a syllable count of 1\/5\/5\/9. I have been hard of hearing most of my life and missed out on much, and at age 45, finally broke down and got hearing aids. While I do enjoy life more fully now that I am not missing every other word that is spoken or noise that resounds, there are times when I find myself longing for the peace and utter quiet that once surrounded me on a regular basis.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To hear, I thought, would change life for the better, but I learned silence is still golden. &nbsp; (A four line poem is composed of four lines, with a syllable count of 1\/5\/5\/9. I have been hard of hearing most of my life and missed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91649","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91895,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91649\/revisions\/91895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}