{"id":134811,"date":"2023-09-02T18:02:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134811"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:09:41","slug":"turtle-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/turtle-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Island #6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world moves slowly through \r\ntime on the back of a turtle. That is\r\nwhy we call it Turtle Island<\/em>. \r\nSome say four elephants stand\r\non the turtle's back and old up the world.\r\nI have never seen them, just the turtles.\r\n\r\nWrinkled necks, tough skin, flippered\r\nfeet, they swim through the \r\nocean of space. Always\r\nmoving around the\r\nsun. All of them, one beneath\r\nthe other, beneath the\r\nother.\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The world moves slowly through time on the back of a turtle. That is why we call it Turtle Island. Some say four elephants stand on the turtle’s back and old up the world. I have never seen them, just the turtles. Wrinkled necks, tough…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134811","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\/1210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134949,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134811\/revisions\/134949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}