{"id":100590,"date":"2021-06-27T03:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100590"},"modified":"2021-07-12T14:01:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:01:57","slug":"gods-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/gods-of-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Gods of the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>POEM 19<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The beach where they stand is not holy ground but it&#8217;s close enough.<\/p>\n<p>Orange sand matches these great rock gods by the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Water is\u00a0 powerful yet it has not worn them down in a million years<\/p>\n<p>They control the clouds twirling over their heads.<\/p>\n<p>They are shrouded in a spritzing mist. It obscures them sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Great and granite boulders jutting from the shallow edge of the sea.<\/p>\n<p>They sing softly like whales or did I imagine that they do?<\/p>\n<p>Miles wide and God only knows how deep they sink into the sea floor.<\/p>\n<p>I think brave boys used to dive from the ones farther off the shore.<\/p>\n<p>They are Guardians and protectors with their striated sides marking their time<\/p>\n<p>on earth, showing their age. Ancient and true does not tell the compete story.<\/p>\n<p>They hold secrets and stories from eons ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POEM 19 The beach where they stand is not holy ground but it&#8217;s close enough. Orange sand matches these great rock gods by the sea. Water is\u00a0 powerful yet it has not worn them down in a million years They control the clouds twirling over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104363,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100590\/revisions\/104363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}