{"id":4524,"date":"2025-02-21T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/?post_type=book&#038;p=4524"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:27:06","slug":"everything-begins-in-the-belly","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/?book=everything-begins-in-the-belly","title":{"rendered":"Everything Begins in the Belly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry and prose about desire, love, longing, heartbreak, happiness, the emotional landscape of women.<br \/>\nIn her second poetry collection,\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Everything Begins in the Belly<\/span>, Debra Parmley considers where everything begins and offers reflections on dancers and dancer\u2019s lives, friendship, sisterhood, the challenges of adult romance, desire, choosing a mate, marriage, love, what lasts and what doesn\u2019t.<br \/>\nThe poems are collected into six sections.<br \/>\n\u201cBeginnings\u201d poems address how things begin.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Dancers, Backstage\u201d contains poems that give a glimpse into the lives of various dancers as she weaves their varied experiences through the poems.<br \/>\n\u201cPerforming\u201d addresses the many different dancers upon the stage under the bright lights of performance and pleasing audiences.<br \/>\n\u201cTent Life Upon Desert Sands\u201d gathers poems about deadly deserts, being hopeful, belly dancers, desire, and soft pillows.<br \/>\n\u201cDance Partners\u201d poems about what it is to be a partner dancing with another and what it is to be a partner in relationships.<br \/>\n\u201cAfter the Sun Sets \u2013 Before the Final Curtain\u201d \u2013 ending poems that close the collection celebrate quieter times and peaceful endings.<br \/>\nThe complicated bonds between people<br \/>\nThese are poems about life: finding breath and joy as a woman while living a full life.<\/p>\n<p>Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, always in sisterhood, Debra Parmley writes from the heart and celebrates life, believing that \u201cEvery day we are alive is a beautiful day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry and prose about desire, love, longing, heartbreak, happiness, the emotional landscape of women. In her second poetry collection,\u00a0Everything Begins in the Belly, Debra Parmley considers where everything begins and offers reflections on dancers and dancer\u2019s lives, friendship, sisterhood, the challenges of adult romance, desire, choosing a mate, marriage, love, what lasts and what doesn\u2019t. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4525,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"book-category":[227,226],"book-series":[225],"book-author":[176],"class_list":["post-4524","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","book-category-contemporary-poetry","book-category-poetry-about-love","book-series-poetry-collection","book-author-debra-parmley"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book\/4524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book\/4524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book\/4524\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-category&post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-series&post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"book-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-author&post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}