{"id":132626,"date":"2023-09-02T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132626"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:52:06","slug":"9am-poem-7-lahainatown-a-viator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/9am-poem-7-lahainatown-a-viator\/","title":{"rendered":"9am\u00a0 Poem 7  Lahainatown (a two part viator)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 22px\">Lahainatown (a two part viator)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lahainatown (a two part viator)<\/p>\n<p>1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and then they died<br \/>\nalone in cars<br \/>\nrunning through smoke<br \/>\nleaping for sea<\/p>\n<p>huddled hopeless<br \/>\nand then they died<br \/>\nunthinkably<br \/>\nalong the streets<\/p>\n<p>trapped in their homes<br \/>\nscreaming, pleading<br \/>\nand then they died<br \/>\nprayers in their throats<\/p>\n<p>unanswered prayers<br \/>\nswept up in flames<br \/>\nburned with their flesh<br \/>\nand then they died.<\/p>\n<p>2.<\/p>\n<p>Lahainatown<br \/>\noh, Maui&#8217;s heart<br \/>\nlies desolate,<br \/>\nsuffocated.<\/p>\n<p>Unmarked graveyard<br \/>\nLahainatown<br \/>\nof bone and teeth<br \/>\nin powder silt<\/p>\n<p>still and silent<br \/>\nhost of fireghosts<br \/>\nLahainatown<br \/>\nwelcomes them all<\/p>\n<p>to stay among<br \/>\nthe healing arms<br \/>\nof Banyon roots,<br \/>\nLahainatown&#8230;<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_230902_094901_781.sdocx--><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahainatown (a two part viator) Lahainatown (a two part viator) 1. &#8230; and then they died alone in cars running through smoke leaping for sea huddled hopeless and then they died unthinkably along the streets trapped in their homes screaming, pleading and then they died&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132626","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133034,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132626\/revisions\/133034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}