{"id":140187,"date":"2023-09-03T02:41:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140187"},"modified":"2023-09-03T02:43:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:43:01","slug":"hour-6-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-6-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 6: Reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was hurtling headlong into a bottomless bit<br \/>\nChased by dark, form-shifting shadows<br \/>\nA rumbling shriek of endless agony emanates<br \/>\nfrom the deepest craters of my inner being<br \/>\nI come to a bone-rattling stop<br \/>\nMy hoodie has snarled on a dying branch<br \/>\nHeadless wonders floating on cotton candy limbs<br \/>\nsurround me chanting in a cacophony of voices<br \/>\nAn icy finger extends its gnarled touch to my heart<br \/>\nwhich by the way stopped pumping moments ago<br \/>\nA haunting melody soulfully stirs my tortured soul<br \/>\nA waif wrapped in an electric blue lightning<br \/>\ntwirls in a slow-paced dance of death<br \/>\nmy rational brain struggles in vain to make sense<br \/>\nits enmeshed gears crashing in deafening silence<br \/>\nWhat is real? what is imagined?<br \/>\nWhat is true? what is false?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hurtling headlong into a bottomless bit Chased by dark, form-shifting shadows A rumbling shriek of endless agony emanates from the deepest craters of my inner being I come to a bone-rattling stop My hoodie has snarled on a dying branch Headless wonders floating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5765],"class_list":["post-140187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2023poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140187","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\/4548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140302,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140187\/revisions\/140302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}