{"id":95832,"date":"2021-06-26T18:58:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95832"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:47:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:47:01","slug":"hour-10-bond-with-a-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-10-bond-with-a-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour #10 (Bond with a stranger)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the corner of my eye<\/p>\n<p>I saw a sudden surge of birds<\/p>\n<p>launch in frenzied unison from the cemetery<\/p>\n<p>bursting from their trees<\/p>\n<p>in ecstatic but perfect formation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I went to the window<\/p>\n<p>I saw a woman on the street, head cocked upwards,<\/p>\n<p>following those same birds<\/p>\n<p>entranced, as was I<\/p>\n<p>by their movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The birds spun and darted<\/p>\n<p>and rode shotgun to the wind<\/p>\n<p>before fading behind my building and out of sight.<\/p>\n<p>And for a few moments, I was connected to another in awe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the corner of my eye I saw a sudden surge of birds launch in frenzied unison from the cemetery bursting from their trees in ecstatic but perfect formation. &nbsp; As I went to the window I saw a woman on the street, head cocked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95832","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\/959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95871,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95832\/revisions\/95871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}