{"id":470,"date":"2025-12-20T10:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:04:37","slug":"guest-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/guest-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The poem below was shared by one participant in my workshop on the theme of &#8220;Procrastination &#8211; Now or Never&#8221;. She shares it here with her full permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunlight creeps along a shining floor.<br>Sunlight radiates through glass<br>and rainbows dance upon the wall.<br>Your presence is felt and uplifts<br>my downward day.<br>Yellow light fills the room and accentuates<br>curious corners. Shady shadows diminish.<br>Warmth is felt and the sharp cold edge<br>has melted the long hours<br>of my downward day.<br>Moments, minutes no longer interrupt time,<br>but pass sweetly on.<br><br>~Paula<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poem below was shared by one participant in my workshop on the theme of &#8220;Procrastination &#8211; Now or Never&#8221;. She shares it here with her full permission. Sunlight creeps along a shining floor.Sunlight radiates through glassand rainbows dance upon the wall.Your presence is felt and upliftsmy downward day.Yellow light fills the room and accentuatescurious&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/guest-poem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guest poem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,16,5,6],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenceofwriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}