{"id":142707,"date":"2023-09-03T07:06:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=142707"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:06:58","slug":"prompt-twenty-two-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-twenty-two-contrast\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Twenty-two &#8211; Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt Twenty-Two \u2013 Visual Prompt \u2013 Silencio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Contrast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hush hits you when you walk in through the door<\/p>\n<p>after a month in India. Or Thailand. Or Spain.<\/p>\n<p>It cradles the racing, travel weary, jet lagged pain.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear the neighbour\u2019s grass being cut.<\/p>\n<p>Two doors down. Through double glazed windows.<\/p>\n<p>You can even hear your own heart beat<\/p>\n<p>And the buzz in your ears.<\/p>\n<p>But what of the buzz you left behind?<\/p>\n<p>Cackling kids, constant doorbells, honking cars.<\/p>\n<p>Constant chitter chatter and yelps of laughter<\/p>\n<p>Merging with the yelps of stray dogs.<\/p>\n<p>You cant hear the birds there, so they caw louder<\/p>\n<p>To be heard. Everyone needs to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>And here, its Silencio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt Twenty-Two \u2013 Visual Prompt \u2013 Silencio \u00a0Contrast The Hush hits you when you walk in through the door after a month in India. Or Thailand. Or Spain. It cradles the racing, travel weary, jet lagged pain. You can hear the neighbour\u2019s grass being cut&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[5772,5765,680],"class_list":["post-142707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142707","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142718,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142707\/revisions\/142718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}