{"id":111787,"date":"2022-06-25T15:09:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111787"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:59:28","slug":"enormity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/enormity\/","title":{"rendered":"Enormity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is more lonely<br \/>\nthan a book on a shelf?<\/p>\n<p>Whether read years ago and not opened since,<br \/>\nor purchased and forgotten,<\/p>\n<p>the pages contain worlds.<br \/>\nBut those worlds are hidden\u2014<\/p>\n<p>unrealized.<\/p>\n<p>Days turn to weeks turn to years<br \/>\nas the enormity contained in just one shelf<br \/>\nremains untapped.<\/p>\n<p>Only this building pressure can explain<br \/>\nthe power that is released as\u2014<br \/>\nfinally\u2014<br \/>\nthe book is lifted<\/p>\n<p>and turned to that first page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is more lonely than a book on a shelf? Whether read years ago and not opened since, or purchased and forgotten, the pages contain worlds. But those worlds are hidden\u2014 unrealized. Days turn to weeks turn to years as the enormity contained in just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111787","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\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111796,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111787\/revisions\/111796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}