{"id":131802,"date":"2023-09-02T14:27:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131802"},"modified":"2023-09-04T21:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T01:08:04","slug":"hour-six-over-the-flat-earth-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-six-over-the-flat-earth-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Six: Over the Flat Earth Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the edge, I\u2019m falling\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">No, just dizzying fear, acrophobia again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peering into the abyss, I see<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Broken promises, no stars, planets,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not even dwarf ones, no asteroids, moons,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">not even super ones, no comets, meteoroids,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">saints, astronauts, photons, multiverses,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014no heaven,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quasars, Musk-bits, satellites, Major Tom,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Galaxies, black holes, nor space burials.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The earth\u2019s angle rounded by curved space,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Einstein\u2019s claim, overlooks a sun-warping place,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">And orbits squared by ten, to the nth degree,<\/p>\n<p>on the edge of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">But all I see is darkness, no matter, dusty, unlit,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bent time, invisible quarks and gluons, one<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plane, indivisible, neither truthful nor just,<\/p>\n<p>under Lunacy, without liberty<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211;Sandwiched to Sol, Ra, Surya<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A morsel of the great nothingness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the edge, I\u2019m falling\u2014 No, just dizzying fear, acrophobia again. Peering into the abyss, I see Broken promises, no stars, planets, Not even dwarf ones, no asteroids, moons, not even super ones, no comets, meteoroids, saints, astronauts, photons, multiverses, \u2014no heaven, Quasars, Musk-bits, satellites,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131802","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131802"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144866,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131802\/revisions\/144866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}