{"id":140844,"date":"2023-09-03T08:02:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140844"},"modified":"2023-09-03T15:09:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T19:09:07","slug":"hour-23-a-world-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-23-a-world-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 23 &#8211; A World Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A World Away<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The soldiers rally on, working to defeat the intruders.<\/p>\n<p>After a late night invasion, the attack is doubled.<br \/>\nThe forces surround the invaders, like skin covering a sphere<\/p>\n<p>The captured are conquered, divided, dismembered<br \/>\nThey are sent out to do the bidding of King Acid.<br \/>\nIn the world in my stomach, battles fire up, then cool.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZOa6h5R0RA\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompt-for-hour-twenty-three-6\">Prompt for Hour Twenty-Three<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Prompt for Hour Twenty-Three&#8221; &#8212; The Poetry Marathon\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompt-for-hour-twenty-three-6\/embed#?secret=fGD4tCYiQ3#?secret=ZOa6h5R0RA\" data-secret=\"ZOa6h5R0RA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/poetscollective.org\/poetryforms\/cherita\/\">Cherita<\/a> poem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A World Away The soldiers rally on, working to defeat the intruders. After a late night invasion, the attack is doubled. The forces surround the invaders, like skin covering a sphere The captured are conquered, divided, dismembered They are sent out to do the bidding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140844","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\/3549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144315,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140844\/revisions\/144315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}