{"id":813,"date":"2021-03-17T07:31:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T07:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.org\/?p=813"},"modified":"2021-03-30T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:02:12","slug":"open-the-door-to-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Open the Door to Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by Roddie McKenzie<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>These moments are rare,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as the door opens between the worlds of myth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and the workaday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I breenge in like Indy to plunder their treasures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and lug them back hopefully,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as the door slams down behind me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To avoid again, the melange<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of: junk mail, bank statements,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>overdue bills and dirty laundry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>inject mountains,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>pothole into whisky bottles,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>book charters on acid airlines,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or just simply<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>listen to that voice that says<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cthis is a life lived less ordinarily\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark World Poetry Day, please find some inspirational words from Roddie McKenzie on how to live a life less ordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[15,46,47,21],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-dundee","tag-poetry","tag-world-poetry-day","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}