{"id":99358,"date":"2021-06-27T00:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99358"},"modified":"2021-06-27T00:24:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:24:07","slug":"meditations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/meditations\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hour 8, Prompt 16, Year 2021 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ding dong!<br \/>\n\u201cThe next stop is Embarcadero.\u201d<br \/>\nThe cry of a child<br \/>\nClatter of skin against train<br \/>\nThe squeak of the sliding doors<br \/>\nA flood of voices exiting the train<br \/>\nNoise<br \/>\nThe rushed chatter of passengers<br \/>\nThe call of vendors selling their wares<br \/>\nAn announcement: \u201cBlue line is running late.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd the throbbing of my head<br \/>\nAbsolute cacophony<\/p>\n<p>The thud of the house door<br \/>\nA sigh of relief<br \/>\nHeels clattering on the apartment floor<br \/>\nClatter clatter clatter clatter<br \/>\nBig clatter and they\u2019re off<br \/>\nThe sunken cushion sound as I sit and close my eyes<br \/>\nA slight moan<\/p>\n<p>Inhale exhale inhale exhale inhale exhale<br \/>\nInhale exhale Inhale exhale<br \/>\nInhale<br \/>\nExhale<br \/>\nInhale<\/p>\n<p>Exhale<\/p>\n<p>Inhale<\/p>\n<p>Exhale<\/p>\n<p>The ticking of the clock<br \/>\nThe snores of my puppy<br \/>\nThe cawing of the crows on the balcony<br \/>\nThe rustle of the fan<br \/>\nThe dripping of the leaky tap<br \/>\nThe evening bells at the nearby church<br \/>\nThe sighs of my mind<br \/>\nOf my body<br \/>\nOf my soul<br \/>\nTiredness turning into relaxation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 8, Prompt 16, Year 2021 Ding dong! \u201cThe next stop is Embarcadero.\u201d The cry of a child Clatter of skin against train The squeak of the sliding doors A flood of voices exiting the train Noise The rushed chatter of passengers The call of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99358","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\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99367,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99358\/revisions\/99367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}