{"id":93371,"date":"2021-06-26T15:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93371"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:56:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:56:14","slug":"why-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/why-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The animals flourished as the humans shrank away.<br \/>\nMaybe some of the comebacks were exaggerated<br \/>\n\u2013 dolphins didn\u2019t really swim in the Venice canals, did they? \u2013<br \/>\nbut the bears were free to roam in Yosemite,<br \/>\nspecies that had been declared extinct suddenly emerged again,<br \/>\nwhales and dolphins could hear each other\u2019s ocean songs.<\/p>\n<p>At night the stars emerged brightly in a clear dark sky.<\/p>\n<p>After all the sadness and sacrifice of the pandemic,<br \/>\nwhy do we hustle\u00a0back to cruise lines and long commutes<br \/>\nwhen instead we ourselves could flourish<br \/>\nin a New Normal where<br \/>\nbirds sing loudly with great joy and<br \/>\nwe are there<br \/>\nto hear them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The animals flourished as the humans shrank away. Maybe some of the comebacks were exaggerated \u2013 dolphins didn\u2019t really swim in the Venice canals, did they? \u2013 but the bears were free to roam in Yosemite, species that had been declared extinct suddenly emerged again,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93371","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93397,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93371\/revisions\/93397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}