{"id":133393,"date":"2023-09-02T16:21:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133393"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:21:55","slug":"night-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/night-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Night View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-133201\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4674-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4674-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4674-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4674-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4674-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4674.jpeg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Night View<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stars like jewels decorate the sky,<\/p>\n<p>pinpoints of light billions of miles away.<\/p>\n<p>I sit by the fire with a lone lamp,<\/p>\n<p>dimmed, so my eyes can watch the<\/p>\n<p>astronomical wonder above me.<\/p>\n<p>A small mesquite fire to warm my bones<\/p>\n<p>in the chill night air.<\/p>\n<p>A new moon to not block my vision<\/p>\n<p>of such magnificence.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I can see mighty Leo or Ursa Major with her cub,<\/p>\n<p>or Canis Major at Orion\u2019s heel.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a meteor will suddenly streak<\/p>\n<p>overhead in a blaze of glory.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe gentle Aquarius will empty his jar<\/p>\n<p>and wet the dry desert with his water.<\/p>\n<p>A supermassive black hole is out there somewhere,<\/p>\n<p>spewing ionized plasma jets into the depths of space.<\/p>\n<p>The great fabric of space and time lie above me<\/p>\n<p>calling me to come to them.<\/p>\n<p>Some day I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night View &nbsp; Stars like jewels decorate the sky, pinpoints of light billions of miles away. I sit by the fire with a lone lamp, dimmed, so my eyes can watch the astronomical wonder above me. A small mesquite fire to warm my bones in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133393","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\/2886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133409,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133393\/revisions\/133409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}