{"id":127807,"date":"2023-09-02T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127807"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:45:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:45:44","slug":"prompt-1-gate-keepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-1-gate-keepers\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #1: gate keepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Image prompt:<\/p>\n<p>gate keeper<\/p>\n<p>you welcomed me &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>somewhere I didn&#8217;t know I&#8217;d be lost to<\/p>\n<p>in fog<\/p>\n<p>and darkness<\/p>\n<p>comforting and yet something not quite right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>gatekeeper to what has never belonged to you to keep anyone in or out of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>especially light<\/p>\n<p>or darkness<\/p>\n<p>or trees or fog or moonlight<\/p>\n<p>and yet<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here:<\/p>\n<p>on the edge of the light inside-<\/p>\n<p>waiting for your blessing to enter.<\/p>\n<p>(C) r.l. elke<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/birk-enwald-pXxFMZ1yrFE-unsplash-819x1024.jpg\" width=\"191\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image prompt: gate keeper you welcomed me &#8211; somewhere I didn&#8217;t know I&#8217;d be lost to in fog and darkness comforting and yet something not quite right. &nbsp; gatekeeper to what has never belonged to you to keep anyone in or out of&#8230; especially light&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127807","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127936,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127807\/revisions\/127936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}