{"id":142657,"date":"2023-09-03T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=142657"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:17:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:17:07","slug":"2023-hour-23-interrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/2023-hour-23-interrupted\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Hour 23: Interrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-142673\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-building-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-building-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-building-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-building.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We watched with interest as crews labored,<br \/>\nDigging foundations,<br \/>\nSecuring beams into place,<br \/>\nSmoothing concrete.<br \/>\nInstalling windows and carefully,<br \/>\nLovingly,<br \/>\nStroking on the red paint.<\/p>\n<p>The architect, we imagined,<br \/>\nSought to communicate,<br \/>\nTo share her brilliance,<br \/>\nTo secure her legacy.<br \/>\nSurely, we thought,<br \/>\nThis must be her<br \/>\nMasterpiece.<\/p>\n<p>Nature, though, cares little for<br \/>\nThe vanities of humanity.<br \/>\nNature seeks out the<br \/>\nHeartbeat of the world,<br \/>\nDisplaying her bounty<br \/>\nin abundance or scarcity,<br \/>\nWilly-nilly; when and where<br \/>\nshe alone chooses.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the building &#8211;<br \/>\nThat carefully constructed facade<br \/>\nConveying an equally careful<br \/>\nMessage to the neighborhood &#8211;<br \/>\nLost its voice to the<br \/>\nSeemingly random presence<br \/>\nOf a single, scrawny tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched with interest as crews labored, Digging foundations, Securing beams into place, Smoothing concrete. Installing windows and carefully, Lovingly, Stroking on the red paint. The architect, we imagined, Sought to communicate, To share her brilliance, To secure her legacy. Surely, we thought, This must&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142657","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\/996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142821,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142657\/revisions\/142821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}