{"id":134170,"date":"2023-09-02T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134170"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:20:15","slug":"funeral-singers-prompt-hour-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/funeral-singers-prompt-hour-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Singers prompt hour 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral Singers  hour 8<br \/>\ncredit: Funeral Singers by Sylvan Esso <em>all italic lines are credited to the song<\/em><\/p>\n<p>under starry skies I hold the fire in my hand<br \/>\nand stretch to the sky<br \/>\n<em>all my friends are funeral singers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>the weight of love is a warm blanket<br \/>\nsafe around me, protection from the cold<br \/>\n<em>all my friends are half-gone birds<\/em><\/p>\n<p>even the stars will burn out eventually<br \/>\nlong before we know they\u2019re gone<br \/>\n<em>all my friends are keeping time<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I sing to starry skies about my past<br \/>\nand hopes for the future<br \/>\nwords lost in the spitting fire<br \/>\nas <em>a book is aching for the tree<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral Singers hour 8 credit: Funeral Singers by Sylvan Esso all italic lines are credited to the song under starry skies I hold the fire in my hand and stretch to the sky all my friends are funeral singers the weight of love is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134170","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\/2907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134193,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134170\/revisions\/134193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}