{"id":139906,"date":"2023-09-03T01:47:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139906"},"modified":"2023-09-03T01:47:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:47:17","slug":"hour-17-kaleidoscopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-17-kaleidoscopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 17 &#8211; Kaleidoscopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaleidoscopic <\/p>\n<p>Multi-colored bits of glass<br \/>\nTin boxes full of rattling buttons<br \/>\nPolka-dots on little girl dresses<br \/>\nVaricolored jellybeans in a jar<\/p>\n<p>Science tells us<br \/>\nWe are attracted to these things &#8211;<br \/>\nMultitudes in prismatic array &#8211;<br \/>\nBecause they give us a feeling of plenty <\/p>\n<p>Dot stickers in rainbow colors<br \/>\nPlastic bins of building blocks<br \/>\nCupcakes covered in sprinkles<br \/>\nBright fish darting through coral reefs<\/p>\n<p>Deprivation dogged our ancestors<br \/>\nSo they filled their larders with jars<br \/>\nThe bins and barrels and boxes<br \/>\nMade people feel safe for the winter<\/p>\n<p>Christmas trees decked with lights<br \/>\nColored markers standing in a cup<br \/>\nGlittery beads sliding on a string<br \/>\nFancy flowers arranged in a vase <\/p>\n<p>Next time you crave colored candy<br \/>\nOr buy yourself a box of crayons<br \/>\nIt may, in part, be nostalgia<br \/>\nOr it\u2019s your ancestors keeping you alive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaleidoscopic Multi-colored bits of glass Tin boxes full of rattling buttons Polka-dots on little girl dresses Varicolored jellybeans in a jar Science tells us We are attracted to these things &#8211; Multitudes in prismatic array &#8211; Because they give us a feeling of plenty Dot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139906","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139914,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139906\/revisions\/139914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}