{"id":131761,"date":"2023-09-02T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131761"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:58:03","slug":"flattened-curves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/flattened-curves\/","title":{"rendered":"Flattened curves (Prompt 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only once have I spoken with someone<br \/>\nwho truly seemed to believe the world is<br \/>\nflat<\/p>\n<p>With great sincerity he spoke of pie-crust<br \/>\ngeology keeping oceans in \u2013 like unbaked<br \/>\nquiche<\/p>\n<p>When asked what he saw looking over<br \/>\nthe edge &#8211; \u2018clouds. no idea where the rain<br \/>\nfalls.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sensing our dubious looks he suggested<br \/>\ngoing to see for ourselves, but Expedia was<br \/>\nbooked<\/p>\n<p>Apparently you can\u2019t get there from here<br \/>\nlet alone theological implications \u2013 where is<br \/>\nhell?<\/p>\n<p>While I put little stock in pie theory, I can<br \/>\nsay a good cherry with sugared crust is<br \/>\nheavenly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2023<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd\">http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only once have I spoken with someone who truly seemed to believe the world is flat With great sincerity he spoke of pie-crust geology keeping oceans in \u2013 like unbaked quiche When asked what he saw looking over the edge &#8211; \u2018clouds. no idea where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[5772,5954,5765,5965],"class_list":["post-131761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023hour6","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-2023prompt6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131761","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143208,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131761\/revisions\/143208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}