{"id":92345,"date":"2021-06-26T14:52:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92345"},"modified":"2021-07-12T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:14:01","slug":"along-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/along-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Along the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>POEM 06<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have strolled this path many a morning. My daily constitutional I choose to call it.<\/p>\n<p>The suns above the horizon already drying the dew. The red squirrels already having a fit.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes my pace is hurried. My mind won&#8217;t grasp a thought.<\/p>\n<p>The birds calling above mere noise, as peace on this tarry I&#8217;ve sought.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I amble along slowly, matching the rhythm of the breeze.<\/p>\n<p>My soul is labored sometimes on these treks. Sometimes I&#8217;m so at ease.<\/p>\n<p>This footpath meanders through a scant woods with clearings here and there.<\/p>\n<p>The shadows grow and shrink with time as light drops without a care.<\/p>\n<p>I journey back home mostly on the straight way. I peer down a crooked leg of the woods and wonder where it goes.<\/p>\n<p>Ah maybe someday I&#8217;ll travel there into its cool, damp darkness, rushing along as my fear grows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POEM 06 I have strolled this path many a morning. My daily constitutional I choose to call it. The suns above the horizon already drying the dew. The red squirrels already having a fit. Sometimes my pace is hurried. My mind won&#8217;t grasp a thought&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92345","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\/3452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104377,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92345\/revisions\/104377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}