{"id":142861,"date":"2023-09-03T07:21:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=142861"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:21:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:21:17","slug":"the-scouring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-scouring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scouring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sky runs red tonight.<br \/>\nThe streams that wreathe this little world<br \/>\nAre scarlet.<\/p>\n<p>The bioluminescent grass<br \/>\nIs fading fast.<br \/>\nThe fern caps are falling.<br \/>\nAt dusk the day\u2019s beginning.<br \/>\nThe final day,<br \/>\nSix burnmarks long,<br \/>\nAnd all of it in dreaming.<\/p>\n<p>The ilkies drift, their herders fled,<br \/>\nShellstones shed,<br \/>\nAnd calling songs all silent.<br \/>\nMidnight and the high moon<br \/>\nIs silver.<br \/>\nUnsettling.<br \/>\nIts palor lends the day a sickly haze.<\/p>\n<p>The night rivers grow closer now<br \/>\nThe sulphur clouds<br \/>\nWill soon be washed away.<br \/>\nDawn is near and the scouring<br \/>\nIs observed<br \/>\nBy one last king.<br \/>\nA world of rich antiquity is gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky runs red tonight. The streams that wreathe this little world Are scarlet. The bioluminescent grass Is fading fast. The fern caps are falling. At dusk the day\u2019s beginning. The final day, Six burnmarks long, And all of it in dreaming. The ilkies drift,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142861","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\/2314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142872,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142861\/revisions\/142872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}