{"id":134412,"date":"2023-09-02T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134412"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:34:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:34:58","slug":"prompt-9-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-9-14\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A single tremor like a bell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">That Friday, we watched the elk<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">cross the valley below us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Down the road, the orange truck<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">rumbled from beneath the carport<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">where a single lightbulb hung<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">suspended in a thin pool of yellow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The elk flowed around the elbow<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">of the fence in a cinnamon river<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">their white markings like letters<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">in some foreign alphabet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">How could we know the single<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">tremor that followed them<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">was a death knell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of it to disappear ~<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single tremor like a bell &nbsp; That Friday, we watched the elk cross the valley below us. Down the road, the orange truck rumbled from beneath the carport where a single lightbulb hung suspended in a thin pool of yellow. The elk flowed around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134412","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134429,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134412\/revisions\/134429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}