{"id":117109,"date":"2022-06-25T22:14:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117109"},"modified":"2022-06-25T22:40:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:40:26","slug":"no-16-look-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/no-16-look-up\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 16: Look Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Cottony puff balls of vapor\r\nScudding across a blue sky\r\nRoiling and rolling into shapes\r\nAs the atmospheric winds push them along\r\n\r\nWho hasn't, as a child, lain on the grass\r\nLooking up and imagining seeing something\r\nWhere it shouldn't be\r\nCompeting with siblings and friends to find it first\r\n\r\nI can no longer look up without getting dizzy\r\nAnd I'm certainly not going to lie on my back in the grass\r\nAs I get itchy from just the thought,\r\nBut I do look for different signs\r\n\r\nWhat is the weather going to be like\r\nAre the contrails made by cirrus clouds\r\nOr the vapor of jets high above\r\nThose are my concerns of today\r\n\r\nNow and then I think I should take the time\r\nTo look upward - keeping my balance by sitting\r\nIn a lawn chair - to see if I can see\r\nThe imaginings of my inner child<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cottony puff balls of vapor Scudding across a blue sky Roiling and rolling into shapes As the atmospheric winds push them along Who hasn&#8217;t, as a child, lain on the grass Looking up and imagining seeing something Where it shouldn&#8217;t be Competing with siblings and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117109","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\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117254,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117109\/revisions\/117254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}