{"id":132378,"date":"2023-09-02T15:17:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132378"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:17:29","slug":"fishbowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/fishbowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishbowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Six<\/p>\n<p>A fish out of water<br \/>\nscooped out of the expanse<br \/>\nwith a net of lies<br \/>\nand plunged within<br \/>\na crystalline bowl.<br \/>\nFlitting to the surface<br \/>\nwherein lies the tease<br \/>\nof sustenance and breath<br \/>\nheld in stagnancy.<br \/>\nFeeble attempts to avoid<br \/>\nthe anglerfish<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s temptation-<br \/>\na false hope of ultraviolet<br \/>\nlure to wrangle in the catch.<br \/>\nHiding within a castle<br \/>\nsurrounded by the anemones<br \/>\nwith tendrils of flesh<br \/>\nwaving like a banner of surrender,<br \/>\nwhile avoiding curious eyes<br \/>\nand sidelong glances.<br \/>\nA hook and another line<br \/>\ndescend to the gravel bottom-<br \/>\nthe lure, a promise of relief<br \/>\nfrom the constraints of<br \/>\na limited existence.<br \/>\nA living decoration<br \/>\nswimming through the days<br \/>\ntrapped within a lonely puddle<br \/>\nwhile dreaming of the ocean<br \/>\ndepicted in the backdrop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Six A fish out of water scooped out of the expanse with a net of lies and plunged within a crystalline bowl. Flitting to the surface wherein lies the tease of sustenance and breath held in stagnancy. Feeble attempts to avoid the anglerfish and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5772,680,3019,2158,326,15,228,391,10,355,390,1084],"class_list":["post-132378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-full-marathon","tag-marathon","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-writer","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132378","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\/1485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132545,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132378\/revisions\/132545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}