{"id":132382,"date":"2023-09-02T15:09:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132382"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:09:42","slug":"turtles-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/turtles-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtle&#8217;s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curiosity has me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as my fingers curl around<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the soft rounded edge<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">at the end of the world<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pulling myself forward<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on my belly<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">much like a kid<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">spying on their parents<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I look down to the black stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lean further and see more stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">even further and see webbed feet<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">swimming through the inky black<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ancient leathery skin folds and stretches<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as a face older than time<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">turns its eyes to me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an unimportant speck in the cosmos<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity has me as my fingers curl around the soft rounded edge at the end of the world &nbsp; Pulling myself forward on my belly much like a kid spying on their parents &nbsp; I look down to the black stars lean further and see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[36,2585,5417,3867],"class_list":["post-132382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-earth","tag-mythology","tag-native-american","tag-turtle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132382","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132445,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132382\/revisions\/132445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}