{"id":122466,"date":"2022-06-26T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=122466"},"modified":"2022-06-26T08:12:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:12:11","slug":"hour-24-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-24-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Human bodies are forever bound<\/span><\/p>\n

to stardust. It is said that ashes<\/span><\/p>\n

turn to ashes, but really,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

flesh turns to dust<\/span><\/p>\n

turns to stars<\/span><\/p>\n

turns to black holes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

turns to the digestion of light.<\/span><\/p>\n

And here I am, walking around<\/span><\/p>\n

with stomach cramps.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet how trite our daily lives<\/span><\/p>\n

may seem in the grand sight of it all,<\/span><\/p>\n

each and every single one of us<\/span><\/p>\n

can carry the meaning\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of a thousand stars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s half of what we see at night,<\/span><\/p>\n

most poets would say there are millions\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and millions of them visible in the sky.<\/span><\/p>\n

But honestly, there are just about<\/span><\/p>\n

two thousand for the human eye to discover.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what we are, human.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Human bodies are forever bound to stardust. It is said that ashes turn to ashes, but really,\u00a0 flesh turns to dust turns to stars turns to black holes\u00a0 turns to the digestion of light. And here I am, walking around with stomach cramps. Yet how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5674,2733],"class_list":["post-122466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022hour24","tag-hour24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122466","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\/2465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122475,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122466\/revisions\/122475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}