{"id":128072,"date":"2023-09-02T10:32:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128072"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:46:16","slug":"prompt-2-the-shadow-of-the-ladder-a-parable-of-womens-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-2-the-shadow-of-the-ladder-a-parable-of-womens-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt 2: the shadow of the ladder (a parable of women&#8217;s lives)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maria-teneva-bJ-TxX30_98-unsplash-683x1024.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>the shadow of the ladder (a parable of women&#8217;s lives)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>seems fitting somehow<\/p>\n<p>for a woman to be looking at the shadow of a ladder<\/p>\n<p>to an unseen ceiling<\/p>\n<p>in a space where everything around her is incomplete<\/p>\n<p>contrived<\/p>\n<p>or just out of reach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>trying to convince her she is just not quite clever enough<\/p>\n<p>to figure out it&#8217;s all a set up<\/p>\n<p>by hands more concerned with creating a world with the illusion of upward mobility<\/p>\n<p>than offering the real route up.<\/p>\n<p>(C) r. l. elke<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; the shadow of the ladder (a parable of women&#8217;s lives) seems fitting somehow for a woman to be looking at the shadow of a ladder to an unseen ceiling in a space where everything around her is incomplete contrived or just out of reach&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128072","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=128072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128243,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128072\/revisions\/128243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}