{"id":131497,"date":"2023-09-02T14:14:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131497"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:14:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:14:49","slug":"prompt-6-edge-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-6-edge-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt 6: edge of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>edge of the world<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;here there be witches and dragons,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>they said<\/p>\n<p>with their rotten-breathed words-<\/p>\n<p>rumpled, boney fingers digging into paper images<\/p>\n<p>too faded to read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know their imagination is duller than their one good eye:<\/p>\n<p>they can&#8217;t see the possibility of wonder<\/p>\n<p>or mystery<\/p>\n<p>or whatever, truly hangs there:<\/p>\n<p>on the edge of the world<\/p>\n<p>spilling words from amphorae<\/p>\n<p>like honey<\/p>\n<p>and sticking to everything all the way down.<\/p>\n<p>(c) r. l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>edge of the world &nbsp; &#8220;here there be witches and dragons,&#8221; they said with their rotten-breathed words- rumpled, boney fingers digging into paper images too faded to read. &nbsp; I know their imagination is duller than their one good eye: they can&#8217;t see the possibility&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131497","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=131497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131621,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131497\/revisions\/131621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}