{"id":119915,"date":"2022-06-26T03:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119915"},"modified":"2022-06-26T03:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:36:17","slug":"hour-nineteen-london-as-seen-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-nineteen-london-as-seen-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Nineteen &#8211; London, As Seen from Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London, As Seen from Above<\/p>\n<p>In all the best stories it happens<br \/>\nin the ones set in London, I mean<\/p>\n<p>Peter Pan flies in through the window<br \/>\nkidnaps the children<br \/>\nthen, with a little pixie dust, they all fly out again<br \/>\noff to Neverland<\/p>\n<p>Mary Poppins arrives on Cherry Tree Lane<br \/>\nfloating down by umbrella<br \/>\nlater, her charges enjoy a tea party on the ceiling<br \/>\nall through the power of laughter<\/p>\n<p>The Ghost of Christmas Past drags Scrooge<br \/>\nkicking and moaning<br \/>\nover the rooftops of London<br \/>\nand away into the Past<\/p>\n<p>And Harry Potter!<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get me started!<br \/>\nBy broom, by hippogriff,<br \/>\nby thestral, and even by motorcycle!<br \/>\nConstantly traversing the airspace of London<\/p>\n<p>And even Doctor Who<br \/>\nwith all of Time and Space in his dominion<br \/>\nincluding all parts of the Earth he might desire<br \/>\nalways ends up in the skies over London<\/p>\n<p>Such iconic topography<br \/>\nWe surely recognize London from the air<br \/>\nmore so than from a street-level perspective<\/p>\n<p>I want to go to London<br \/>\njust so that I, too,<br \/>\nmight take to the air<br \/>\nand fly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, As Seen from Above In all the best stories it happens in the ones set in London, I mean Peter Pan flies in through the window kidnaps the children then, with a little pixie dust, they all fly out again off to Neverland Mary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119915","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119927,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119915\/revisions\/119927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}