{"id":122087,"date":"2022-06-26T07:43:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=122087"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:43:40","slug":"the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Someday, for sure, I shall need this guide<br \/>\nFor the galaxy is a hundred thousand light years wide.<br \/>\nI shall evolve using bio engineering and AI<br \/>\nTo take my rightful place in the sky.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Oh, wait,\u00a0 the sky is an illusion, but not me<br \/>\nI am a solid carbon-based entity.<br \/>\nBut that is exactly the reason, you see,<br \/>\nThat I&#8217;m unable to cross the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My brain can possibly expand and grow,<br \/>\nFor I use only 5 percent of it now.<br \/>\nBut can I myself handle the reality<br \/>\nOf starfields stretching to infinity?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My mind is frightened of what lies beyond<br \/>\nThe reach of my science, the grasp of my hand.<br \/>\nPerhaps all our minds need to meet and merge<br \/>\nAnd then a new human wave can surge<br \/>\nOutward into space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy Someday, for sure, I shall need this guide For the galaxy is a hundred thousand light years wide. I shall evolve using bio engineering and AI To take my rightful place in the sky. Oh, wait,\u00a0 the sky is an&#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":[4909,5651,3271],"class_list":["post-122087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-book-title","tag-prompt23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122087","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=122087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122112,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122087\/revisions\/122112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}