There must be something
\nin the books,
\nhe wrote.
\nIn his books,
\nthere was hope.
\nOptimism planted
\nin a dystopia
\nthat grew in a reader’s heart
\nand showed
\nhow it is really darkest
\nbefore dawn.
\nThe world was bankrupted
\nof ten million fine sentences
\nthe night Ray Bradbury passed on.<\/p>\n
Following the poetry prompt, There must be something in the books, he wrote. In his books, there was hope. Optimism planted in a dystopia that grew in a reader’s heart and showed how it is really darkest before dawn. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine sentences the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[1041,49,1040,1043],"class_list":["post-13417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-fehrenheit-451","tag-hope","tag-ray-bradbury","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417","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\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13492,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions\/13492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndedicated to Ray Bradbury.
\nTwo quotes from Fahrenheit 451<\/em> used
\ncomposing this poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"