{"id":126935,"date":"2023-09-02T09:14:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126935"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:08:10","slug":"prompt-1-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-1-11\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt #1: after diana khoi Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">the past draped about us like a cloak<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0~ <em>after Diana Khoi Nguyen<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">the cloak of the past hangs so very heavy<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">hobbles my movement through the present<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">hides any futures<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I shake my head to loosen its dark folds<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">but only flickers of light make it through<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">so much these days is dark<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">somewhere, light is its own mantle<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">this is the song I sing to myself: <em>light hope<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">each another kind of cape<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">so that when this cloak threatens to smother<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I stumble forward\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hands outstretched<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">singing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the past draped about us like a cloak \u00a0~ after Diana Khoi Nguyen the cloak of the past hangs so very heavy hobbles my movement through the present hides any futures I shake my head to loosen its dark folds but only flickers of light&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126935","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126935"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130599,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126935\/revisions\/130599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}