{"id":108860,"date":"2022-06-25T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108860"},"modified":"2022-06-25T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:41:06","slug":"los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually thought<br \/>\nthe streets would sparkle with<br \/>\ntwinkling light and diamond sunshine,<br \/>\nboundless possibility and joy in this,<br \/>\nthe City of Stars.<\/p>\n<p>But now I see<br \/>\nthere is no sparkle here,<br \/>\nonly lost hopes and broken promises,<br \/>\na world of deep darkness in this,<br \/>\nthe City of Stars.<\/p>\n<p>And I am an angel without wings<br \/>\npicking my way<br \/>\ndown uneven pavement,<br \/>\ntrying not to breathe in the<br \/>\nforgotten dreams of yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>And I am an angel without flight<br \/>\nresting under tall palm trees and<br \/>\nlistening to the parrots overhead,<br \/>\nchattering and screeching as<br \/>\nthey fly in groups across the sky<\/p>\n<p>And I am an angel without spirit,<br \/>\npulled down deep into darkness and<br \/>\nunable to lift my wings to fly<br \/>\ntoward the light<br \/>\nof the real stars just above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually thought the streets would sparkle with twinkling light and diamond sunshine, boundless possibility and joy in this, the City of Stars. But now I see there is no sparkle here, only lost hopes and broken promises, a world of deep darkness in this,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108860","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108873,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108860\/revisions\/108873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}