{"id":131864,"date":"2023-09-02T14:32:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131864"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:32:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:32:32","slug":"post-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/post-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Post 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flat earth<\/p>\n<p>today the earth turns a corner<br \/>\nparallel lines remain apart forever no matter how far we look<\/p>\n<p>far is redefined with smoke, fire and asphyxiating air<\/p>\n<p>the valleys have erased the trees and lakes and rivers we admired yesterday,<br \/>\nthe side of the road is flattened, sky the mirror till the next corner<br \/>\nwhere the rock wall turns in an impossible angle<br \/>\nthrows off shabby heat-dried grassy twiggy garments<br \/>\nshuffles the flaming rags to invisibility<\/p>\n<p>another corner, a little farther down<br \/>\na further immolation<br \/>\nblack smoke pillar stark against the omnipresent grey<br \/>\nat its foot a burning seed<br \/>\nblue orange yellow<br \/>\nonce a late model SUV,<br \/>\nroots past the melted tires<br \/>\nignites the road<br \/>\nmelts asphalt<br \/>\ncrumbles cement<br \/>\nremakes the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flat earth today the earth turns a corner parallel lines remain apart forever no matter how far we look far is redefined with smoke, fire and asphyxiating air the valleys have erased the trees and lakes and rivers we admired yesterday, the side of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131864","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\/5220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131894,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131864\/revisions\/131894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}