{"id":127858,"date":"2023-09-02T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127858"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:54:15","slug":"hour-1-cloak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-1-cloak\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1 &#8211; Cloak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is how she found us\/ the past draped about us like a cloak\u201d \u2013Diana Khoi Nguyen<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When history had not been made yet,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">when the outcome was nothing but a thought,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a raindrop of potential,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not even a probability, but a possibility still.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When history had not been made yet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I wonder if the men whose hands\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">had not yet pressed the buttons<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">trembled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It should have been everything to do\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with anticipation\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not of glory<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but of cells mutations<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of Native land taken<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of fear like a cloak over the world. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is how she found us\/ the past draped about us like a cloak\u201d \u2013Diana Khoi Nguyen &nbsp; When history had not been made yet, when the outcome was nothing but a thought, a raindrop of potential, not even a probability, but a possibility still&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127858","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\/3778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128006,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127858\/revisions\/128006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}