Outside, it\u2019s 91 degrees, which<\/p>\n
reminds me of the time I felt lost<\/p>\n
but wasn\u2019t. I was at the movie<\/p>\n
theatre in Spokane, River Park Square,<\/p>\n
waiting for my sister. We would<\/p>\n
see a movie together and then eat chicken<\/p>\n
saut\u00e9 with peanut sauce afterward<\/p>\n
at the outside restaurant. While I waited,<\/p>\n
children raced about and shoppers<\/p>\n
strolled past\u2014everyone tanned and cool<\/p>\n
in the air-conditioned mall. Suddenly, I felt<\/p>\n
lost, panicky\u2026which didn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n
At last, my sister showed up, all bubbly<\/p>\n
and full of fun. That moment, imperceptibly,<\/p>\n
the feeling left me. We bought popcorn<\/p>\n
and Cokes and found our seats. I told<\/p>\n
her what had happened. I don\u2019t remember<\/p>\n
what she said, but perhaps it was something<\/p>\n
like: Did you drink enough water? <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n *It\u2019s 100 in Spokane today. 112 by Tuesday.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Outside, it\u2019s 91 degrees, which reminds me of the time I felt lost but wasn\u2019t. I was at the movie theatre in Spokane, River Park Square, waiting for my sister. We would see a movie together and then eat chicken saut\u00e9 with peanut sauce afterward…<\/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-94972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94972","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=94972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104339,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94972\/revisions\/104339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}