{"id":53,"date":"2014-12-13T07:40:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T07:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dingopress.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2015-06-07T06:43:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T06:43:31","slug":"first-poem-in-long-time-thanks-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"First Poem in Long Time&#8230;thanks Yoga!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the Mat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the start with fear beside,<br \/>flat, fat and taught.<br \/>Arms and legs and trunk contract<br \/>behind imprisoned thought.<\/p>\n<p>To Gods-<br \/>head bowed heart lifted.<br \/>In teachable postures.<br \/>Let go to be guided.<\/p>\n<p>The world is too much with us.<br \/>Yet here the center\u2019s found.<br \/>Reclaim the dwindling powers.<br \/>To length, breadth and width we\u2019re bound.<\/p>\n<p>Bhandas contracting and arching restraint.<br \/>Desperate, subtle swinging.<br \/>Drips and drops a yoga of in.<br \/>The blood, the light all rushing.<\/p>\n<p>Now on the mat,<br \/>puddles of death explored,<br \/>entangling the farthest star,<br \/>resistance relinquished\u2026restored.<\/p>\n<p>-Jack Paradis<br \/>Los Angeles 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Mat At the start with fear beside,flat, fat and taught.Arms and legs and trunk contractbehind imprisoned thought. To Gods-head bowed heart lifted.In teachable postures.Let go to be guided. The world is too much with us.Yet here the center\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/?p=53\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dingopress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}