{"id":133591,"date":"2023-09-02T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133591"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:36:43","slug":"prompt-eight-the-african-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-eight-the-african-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Eight &#8211; The African Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 8 = Image<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The African Sky<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lying flat on our backs under the Milky Way<\/p>\n<p>Half asleep, I hear you say,<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Can anything be vaster than this sky?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>We looked up together, hands clasped tight.<\/p>\n<p>At the open, silken, endless, night<\/p>\n<p>Where diamonds fly to after they die.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our campfire crackles and casts a glow<\/p>\n<p>on eager faces, sleepy a while ago<\/p>\n<p>Its light vying with the brightness above.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s our very own canopy,\u2019 I said<\/p>\n<p>As I nestled back against his head<\/p>\n<p>And the African Sky blessed our love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 8 = Image &nbsp; The African Sky &nbsp; Lying flat on our backs under the Milky Way Half asleep, I hear you say, \u2018Can anything be vaster than this sky?\u2019 We looked up together, hands clasped tight. At the open, silken, endless, night Where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[5772,5765,680,3019,355],"class_list":["post-133591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133591","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133625,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133591\/revisions\/133625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}