{"id":128232,"date":"2023-09-02T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128232"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:35:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:35:27","slug":"prompt-1-there-sleeps-a-great-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-1-there-sleeps-a-great-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #1: &#8220;There Sleeps a Great Beast&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darkness calling, pierced by the lone<br \/>\ncyclopean eye, a road that bends beyond sight,<br \/>\nto roll through the forested bosom of enchanting night.<\/p>\n<p>Where the asphalt holds a small barrier<br \/>\nupon undulant roots and curving earth,<br \/>\nwhere all is swallowed, digested,<br \/>\nreborn through midnight wonder,<br \/>\nuntil the blood sings with ancient notes,<br \/>\nonce again remembered, stirring the soul<br \/>\nto dance with itself,<br \/>\nto love that primordial familiarity.<\/p>\n<p>No path is too long to return to this place.<br \/>\nThis place that has been dormant inside you.<br \/>\nGo there now, in the deep dark of your modern slumber,<br \/>\nawake the beast that seeks to revel there,<br \/>\nforget the names of things, forget the things you were taught,<br \/>\nact on what you feel in your bones,<br \/>\nact on what you already know,<br \/>\non what you\u2019ve always known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darkness calling, pierced by the lone cyclopean eye, a road that bends beyond sight, to roll through the forested bosom of enchanting night. Where the asphalt holds a small barrier upon undulant roots and curving earth, where all is swallowed, digested, reborn through midnight wonder,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5824,5787],"class_list":["post-128232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-hour-1-2023","tag-2023-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128232","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128282,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128232\/revisions\/128282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}