{"id":119944,"date":"2022-06-26T03:46:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119944"},"modified":"2022-07-09T14:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T18:17:15","slug":"imaginary-city-hour-nineteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/imaginary-city-hour-nineteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaginarium, Hour Nineteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imaginarium<\/p>\n<p>The sleepy, somnolent air of a summer&#8217;s day<br \/>\nreels away in ribbons through the stratosphere,<br \/>\nspooling down to cooler night<br \/>\nas the city awakens again.<\/p>\n<p>Electric cars are death watch beetles, tick-ticking<br \/>\nover still hot pavement, invisible until close enough<br \/>\nto be touched by startled pedestrians sharing their space.<\/p>\n<p>Lights in skyscraper windows flicker and burn<br \/>\nin tandem, until finally they are as torches<br \/>\nreaching up to the sky, a sacrifice<br \/>\nto the new gods of industry.<\/p>\n<p>Furtive love and quicksilver hate duel for supremacy,<br \/>\na lover&#8217;s dance that never ends,<br \/>\nslipping, sliding, grinding, through the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imaginarium The sleepy, somnolent air of a summer&#8217;s day reels away in ribbons through the stratosphere, spooling down to cooler night as the city awakens again. Electric cars are death watch beetles, tick-ticking over still hot pavement, invisible until close enough to be touched by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119944","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\/119944","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124807,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119944\/revisions\/124807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}