{"id":131416,"date":"2023-09-02T14:08:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131416"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:08:21","slug":"hour-six-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-six-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The edge of the earth lives in all of us.<\/p>\n<p>As we age we dangle our feet into the universe<\/p>\n<p>wiggling our toes into nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>Curtains of darkness hold us<\/p>\n<p>restrain us, teach us<\/p>\n<p>to evolve deeper and deeper into the everything<\/p>\n<p>that exists everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>These animal bodies made of flesh and bone<\/p>\n<p>can&#8217;t see beyond the edge of the earth<\/p>\n<p>but in death we soar through the curtains<\/p>\n<p>bursting into the reality that lies<\/p>\n<p>just outside our reach in this world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>where death dies and life begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The edge of the earth lives in all of us. As we age we dangle our feet into the universe wiggling our toes into nothingness. Curtains of darkness hold us restrain us, teach us to evolve deeper and deeper into the everything that exists everywhere&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131416","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\/4907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131525,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131416\/revisions\/131525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}