{"id":134552,"date":"2023-09-02T18:02:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134552"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:02:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:02:59","slug":"hour-10-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-10-the-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour #10: The Cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many complicated<\/p>\n<p>theories about space\u2014<\/p>\n<p>most being hard to understand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>String theory speaks of<\/p>\n<p>vibrating loops\u2014electrons<\/p>\n<p>&amp; quarks. I wonder if that theory<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>has anything to do with the moon?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I am no scientist, just<\/p>\n<p>a poet. So here goes&#8230;I pull<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the chain of string from the edge<\/p>\n<p>of the potato sack. It unravels<\/p>\n<p>into two strings, which I tie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>together to make one. I tie that<\/p>\n<p>string to the ball of string I\u2019ve been<\/p>\n<p>winding. The ball of string<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>is white &amp; looks like a moon,<\/p>\n<p>Especially when I throw it<\/p>\n<p>into space &amp; it defies gravity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is orbiting right now. The<\/p>\n<p>only problem with my method<\/p>\n<p>is how do I catch the ball when<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>say, I need string to truss the turkey<\/p>\n<p>or to tie up the fall pea plants?<\/p>\n<p>It is so high up there, so near the moon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many complicated theories about space\u2014 most being hard to understand. &nbsp; String theory speaks of vibrating loops\u2014electrons &amp; quarks. I wonder if that theory &nbsp; has anything to do with the moon? Well, I am no scientist, just a poet. So here goes&#8230;I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134552","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\/1134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134854,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134552\/revisions\/134854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}