{"id":131561,"date":"2023-09-02T14:11:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131561"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:11:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:11:51","slug":"the-dark-at-the-edge-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-dark-at-the-edge-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark at the Edge of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing there; just emptiness<\/p>\n<p>A void so deep and dark<\/p>\n<p>That you could fall forever<\/p>\n<p>And never make a mark<\/p>\n<p>No stars to twinkle merrily<\/p>\n<p>No moons to show the sun<\/p>\n<p>Just a darkness made of black<\/p>\n<p>With nowhere left to run<\/p>\n<p>This is what I think I&#8217;d see<\/p>\n<p>If the Earth were really flat<\/p>\n<p>And I looked right off the edge<\/p>\n<p>Just an endless sea of black<\/p>\n<p>Like the deepest, darkest well<\/p>\n<p>Without a wish to make<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad the Earth is round<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not a chance I&#8217;d have to take.<\/p>\n<p>~Mandy Kocsis\u00a92023~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing there; just emptiness A void so deep and dark That you could fall forever And never make a mark No stars to twinkle merrily No moons to show the sun Just a darkness made of black With nowhere left to run This is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[5765,2265,5827],"class_list":["post-131561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-hour6","tag-mandyslandpoetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131561","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\/1516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131576,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131561\/revisions\/131576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}