{"id":109413,"date":"2022-06-25T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109413"},"modified":"2022-07-15T02:37:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T06:37:03","slug":"hour-4-neon-lit-nothingness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-4-neon-lit-nothingness\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4: Neon lit nothingness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>years and years later,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>a neon lit cheerful<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>looking museum enshrines,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>\u00a0memories- silver and black faded\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>photos of human faces;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>preserved in their emotional intensity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>a careful study for all to\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>observe and consume.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>purple flowing rivers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>black dahlias blooming in crystals,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>simulated fifth dimensional<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>bird sounds,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>pink and blue mynahs,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>the perfect preserved habitat<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>with orange horned elephants and pink flappy penguins.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ahh! perfect nostalgic times,<\/p>\n<p>we captured it exactly as it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>rue the other worldly spectators<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>as the little black-silver faces and smiles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>fade further and further&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>into the neon nothingness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>years and years later, a neon lit cheerful looking museum enshrines, \u00a0memories- silver and black faded\u00a0 photos of human faces; preserved in their emotional intensity. a careful study for all to\u00a0 observe and consume. purple flowing rivers, black dahlias blooming in crystals, simulated fifth dimensional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,12,441,5],"tags":[5024],"class_list":["post-109413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-poetrymarathon-halfmarathon-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109413","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\/4451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109452,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109413\/revisions\/109452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}