{"id":120045,"date":"2022-06-26T03:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120045"},"modified":"2022-06-26T03:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:53:21","slug":"hour-nineteen-cities-of-light-and-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-nineteen-cities-of-light-and-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUR NINETEEN ~ Cities of Light and Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>CITIES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Or, Finding the MirrorMask<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>~inspired by the movie MirrorMask, written by Neil Gaiman<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s a dream but it\u2019s not a dream<\/p>\n<p>because really it\u2019s another world<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>this is a city of front and back<\/p>\n<p>a city of light and shadow<\/p>\n<p>a city created by dreams,<\/p>\n<p>and drawings, and wishes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>hopes and fish swim along the streets<\/p>\n<p>sphinx cats will chew the pages of books<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s always dim here, twilight, like in a dream<\/p>\n<p>that\u2019s part of how you can tell, unless<\/p>\n<p>you are the type of artist who can easily recognize<\/p>\n<p>your own work made life-size and living<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so find the key and then<\/p>\n<p>the lock and then the mirrormask<\/p>\n<p>the last door left will take you home again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITIES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW Or, Finding the MirrorMask ~inspired by the movie MirrorMask, written by Neil Gaiman &nbsp; it\u2019s a dream but it\u2019s not a dream because really it\u2019s another world &nbsp; this is a city of front and back a city of light&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120045","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\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120054,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120045\/revisions\/120054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}