{"id":106526,"date":"2022-06-25T09:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106526"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:18:04","slug":"hour-one-the-day-after-the-bomb-went-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-one-the-day-after-the-bomb-went-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour One: The Day After the Bomb Went Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning, silent and still,<br \/>\nbetrayed the overwhelming<br \/>\nfact that a bomb<br \/>\nhad gone off,<br \/>\nleaving those who planned<\/p>\n<p>for this ominous event, for<br \/>\nyears, and those who were<br \/>\ncaught, after years<br \/>\nof complacency<br \/>\nand self-denial, to marvel<br \/>\nat its occurrence and to plot<\/p>\n<p>the contours of the shadow<br \/>\nthat the plume of this<br \/>\ndestruction<br \/>\nwould have<br \/>\non future years.<\/p>\n<p>As a dinosaur must have said<br \/>\nwhilst viewing the meteor<br \/>\nhurtling to<br \/>\nan innocent earth:<br \/>\n\u201cHow the hell will this work out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How in the hell indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning, silent and still, betrayed the overwhelming fact that a bomb had gone off, leaving those who planned for this ominous event, for years, and those who were caught, after years of complacency and self-denial, to marvel at its occurrence and to plot the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106526","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\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106737,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106526\/revisions\/106737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}