{"id":127125,"date":"2023-09-02T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127125"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:33:22","slug":"spirit-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/spirit-gateway\/","title":{"rendered":"SPIRIT GATEWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PROMPT #1 – Hour 1<\/p>\n

One way in, one way out<\/p>\n

The cries of my family echo through dread forests<\/p>\n

filled with rough graves<\/p>\n

If I step on the road I will have to walk in<\/p>\n

One way in, one way out<\/p>\n

To leave is unlikely, many never<\/p>\n

for those who are in, barricaded and staunch<\/p>\n

listening to mortar pound their apartments<\/p>\n

reducing to rubble cities of the ancients<\/p>\n

In an effort to commit genocide<\/p>\n

In an effort to wipe out all culture, all language, all men<\/p>\n

Tanks rumble on the road of my family<\/p>\n

I am stuck, gatekeeper of souls<\/p>\n

As they try to leave I arrest them<\/p>\n

weigh them against a single feather<\/p>\n

and watch them fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  PROMPT #1 – Hour 1 One way in, one way out The cries of my family echo through dread forests filled with rough graves If I step on the road I will have to walk in One way in, one way out To leave…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127125","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\/1278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127233,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127125\/revisions\/127233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}