{"id":109144,"date":"2022-06-25T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109144"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:01:31","slug":"third-hour-i-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/third-hour-i-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Hour: I wonder&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am strapped to my wheelchair<br \/>\nMy legs lie still, will never kiss Earth again&#8230;<br \/>\nBut they cannot weigh my heart down<br \/>\nFor that muscled fella has eyes<br \/>\nThat dream big of conquering mountains and fears alike,<br \/>\nOf scaling heights and sailing through seas of sorrow,<br \/>\nOf manisfesting in mine mind, a city of stars<br \/>\nStars stitched together, parodying hope<br \/>\nGave birth to the city of lights<br \/>\nThat shines like a beacon from afar and gently guides you<br \/>\nTo itself and then to your core, your soul<br \/>\nWhere you can see millions of stars<br \/>\nDancing around the bonfire of desire, of hope, of failing, if getting up..<br \/>\nLike the death dance of spiritied fireflies, who Sway to the tune of the melody of their fate<br \/>\nAnd you wonder; what is death? What is life?<\/p>\n<p>What is this city of stars?<\/p>\n<p>Is it but a space, a chasm? A mirage?<br \/>\nOr is it a silver lining in the clouds&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am strapped to my wheelchair My legs lie still, will never kiss Earth again&#8230; But they cannot weigh my heart down For that muscled fella has eyes That dream big of conquering mountains and fears alike, Of scaling heights and sailing through seas of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109144","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\/4553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109165,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109144\/revisions\/109165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}