{"id":131717,"date":"2023-09-02T14:25:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131717"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:17:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:17:55","slug":"below-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/below-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Below the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s only water below.<br \/>\nDeep water.<br \/>\nCold water.<br \/>\nBut not bottomless. Not so.<\/p>\n<p>There are mountains under the water.<br \/>\nThere are cities.<br \/>\nThere are towns<br \/>\nThere are great steel shipwright\u2019s yards. And rocket fuel. Watered down<\/p>\n<p>There are angry gods under the water<br \/>\nDown there<br \/>\nBeneath the ground<br \/>\nAnd we\u2019ve told stories of them since this higher land was found.<\/p>\n<p>I look down from this edge, but no further shall I go<br \/>\nFor the roar is the flood,<br \/>\nAll the fountains of the great deep are broken<br \/>\nAnd there is only water below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s only water below. Deep water. Cold water. But not bottomless. Not so. There are mountains under the water. There are cities. There are towns There are great steel shipwright\u2019s yards. And rocket fuel. Watered down There are angry gods under the water Down there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131717","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\/2314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131773,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131717\/revisions\/131773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}