{"id":568,"date":"2013-01-22T23:40:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T23:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/2013\/01\/22\/the-ritual\/"},"modified":"2013-01-22T23:40:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T23:40:27","slug":"the-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/2013\/01\/22\/the-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>As stick pounds skin\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Calmness strikes me<\/div>\n<div>Energetic surges of pulsating madness<\/div>\n<div>Yet my body is relaxed<\/div>\n<div>My brain elated<\/div>\n<div>My ears welcoming<\/div>\n<div>My being proud.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Warm hands, strong grip,<\/div>\n<div>Triplets and straight eighths\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>(and a splash, to lighten the mood), swings<\/div>\n<div>to the upbeat,<\/div>\n<div>I relish the sound<\/div>\n<div>And feel the rhythm resounding through me.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>So few things give me such strength as that of music.<\/div>\n<div>Let the drums keep beating<\/div>\n<div>And the music play on.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As stick pounds skin\u00a0 Calmness strikes me Energetic surges of pulsating madness Yet my body is relaxed My brain elated My ears welcoming My being proud. \u00a0 Warm hands, strong grip, Triplets and straight eighths\u00a0 (and a splash, to lighten the mood), swings to the upbeat, I relish the sound And feel the rhythm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/2013\/01\/22\/the-ritual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ritual<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c43-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}