{"id":93069,"date":"2021-06-26T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93069"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:37:45","slug":"the-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you say <em>normal<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you think about\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0the past<\/p>\n<p>&amp; the things you depended upon\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &amp; the things that stayed the same<\/p>\n<p>then you \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0learned that change \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0was the only thing\u00a0 \u00a0 that you<\/p>\n<p>could depend upon \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you learned that you could resist \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0or\u00a0 you<\/p>\n<p>could let go\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&amp; be thankful\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0when\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0isolation arrived again<\/p>\n<p>you had to adjust\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0to change\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0alone in your room\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0you worked<\/p>\n<p>the <em>new norm<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0people said when you met\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0on ZOOM<\/p>\n<p>some said the weather was never this hot\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0or smoky &amp;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0they said<\/p>\n<p>they were scared\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&amp; again\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 you recalled what<\/p>\n<p>it used to be like\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&amp; thought\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0this is a new life\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 move on<\/p>\n<p>be the change\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0make art\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 read\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 write\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0make\u00a0 love\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0adapt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you say normal \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you think about\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0the past &amp; the things you depended upon\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &amp; the things that stayed the same then you \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0learned that change \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0was the only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93069","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\/1134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93171,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93069\/revisions\/93171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}