{"id":131654,"date":"2023-09-02T14:18:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131654"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:18:29","slug":"8am-poem-6-if-earth-was-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/8am-poem-6-if-earth-was-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"8am. Poem 6.  If Earth was Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 22px\">8am. Poem 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 22px\">If Earth was Flat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 22px\">If Earth was flat<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">I could peek over the edge<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">like Lucy the Cat<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">looking for a gecko<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">or other crawly thing to pounce.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">I could finally confirm that<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">Dark Matter lays in sheets <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">one on top of the other<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">of their own gravitational design<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">castles after castles after castles,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">many with spiraling disks on top<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">one of blue and green, wet and dry<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">covered in crawly things<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">very pounc-on-able crawly things<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 22px\">assuming Earth was flat,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">and I was the size of The Moon.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px\">.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_230902_081654_146.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8am. Poem 6. If Earth was Flat If Earth was flat I could peek over the edge like Lucy the Cat looking for a gecko or other crawly thing to pounce. I could finally confirm that Dark Matter lays in sheets one on top of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131654","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131672,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131654\/revisions\/131672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}