{"id":131488,"date":"2023-09-02T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131488"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:15:03","slug":"jigsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/jigsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Jigsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earth was flat when he last looked<\/p>\n<p>sitting at the kitchen table,<\/p>\n<p>concentrating hard,<\/p>\n<p>with wooden pieces strewn haphazardly<\/p>\n<p>across a red checked tablecloth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Europe had disintegrated into pieces<\/p>\n<p>with eastern wars erupting;<\/p>\n<p>troubles breaking worlds apart<\/p>\n<p>flood and famine<\/p>\n<p>tornadoes, hurricanes, disease,<\/p>\n<p>Omnivorous firestorms displacing everyone<\/p>\n<p>And all living things<\/p>\n<p>running now to the very edge<\/p>\n<p>of this earthly plain<\/p>\n<p>to find the oceans cascading,<\/p>\n<p>in great floods escaping,<\/p>\n<p>down the table legs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earth was flat when he last looked sitting at the kitchen table, concentrating hard, with wooden pieces strewn haphazardly across a red checked tablecloth. &nbsp; Europe had disintegrated into pieces with eastern wars erupting; troubles breaking worlds apart flood and famine tornadoes, hurricanes, disease,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,5],"tags":[2265,5737,5818,4320],"class_list":["post-131488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-hour6","tag-poetrymarathon2023","tag-5818","tag-poetryprompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131488","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\/5292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131598,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131488\/revisions\/131598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}