{"id":129635,"date":"2023-09-02T12:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129635"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:12:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:12:49","slug":"theessential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/theessential\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cw: none<\/p>\n<p>The canary has never flown;<br \/>\nto fly would mean it would not be owned.<br \/>\nIt wonders, now, when it can see the sun<br \/>\nthrough the room&#8217;s tiny window,<br \/>\nwhat it would be like to soar.<br \/>\nA canary is made to fly and to sing,<br \/>\nand with neither, it wonders:<br \/>\nis it even still a canary?<br \/>\nOr has its very canary-ness been taken,<br \/>\nthrown onto the ground, shattered,<br \/>\nglasslike and glassy<br \/>\nlike death&#8217;s own reflection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cw: none The canary has never flown; to fly would mean it would not be owned. It wonders, now, when it can see the sun through the room&#8217;s tiny window, what it would be like to soar. A canary is made to fly and to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129635","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\/4005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129738,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129635\/revisions\/129738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}