{"id":121492,"date":"2022-06-26T06:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121492"},"modified":"2022-06-26T06:42:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:42:35","slug":"birds-eye-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/birds-eye-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird&#8217;s Eye-view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>bird&#8217;s eye- view<\/p>\n<p>How insignificant these tiny things<br \/>\nDepending on wheels,<br \/>\nOr on metal wings.<\/p>\n<p>Moving along pre-set ways<br \/>\nUnable to grasp, to understand<br \/>\nThe immensity of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>I ride an updraft, glide on high<br \/>\nSpot with my stereoscopic eye<br \/>\nA red car stopped beside the freeway.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the driver has slowed his pace<br \/>\nTo take in the beauty of nature&#8217;s grace<br \/>\nOf the greensward or the trees.<\/p>\n<p>I can move any which way<br \/>\nIn the sky, my 3D space,<br \/>\nThe sun on my feathers<br \/>\nThe wind in my face<br \/>\nAnd so..<br \/>\nI pity the earth-bound human race.<\/p>\n<p>,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-121504\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/justin-wilkens-p6oLLI_9sV0-unsplash-1024x682-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/justin-wilkens-p6oLLI_9sV0-unsplash-1024x682-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/justin-wilkens-p6oLLI_9sV0-unsplash-1024x682-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/justin-wilkens-p6oLLI_9sV0-unsplash-1024x682-1-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/justin-wilkens-p6oLLI_9sV0-unsplash-1024x682-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bird&#8217;s eye- view How insignificant these tiny things Depending on wheels, Or on metal wings. Moving along pre-set ways Unable to grasp, to understand The immensity of the sky. I ride an updraft, glide on high Spot with my stereoscopic eye A red car stopped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,5],"tags":[4909,5405,3243],"class_list":["post-121492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-pictureprompt","tag-prompt22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121492","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\/2849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121550,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121492\/revisions\/121550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}