{"id":18563,"date":"2016-08-13T10:29:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18563"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:29:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:29:37","slug":"the-monolith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-monolith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monolith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The monolith sits reaching for the sky<br \/>\nMy gun in hand I aim and slowly fire<br \/>\nTime slows, I watch the bullet as it flies<br \/>\nI wait and watch I know I cannot tire<br \/>\nShe waits behind me with a book in hand<br \/>\nShe watches too, although she cannot know<br \/>\nAfter this moment here upon the sand<br \/>\nThe bullet\u2019s distance is where we must go<br \/>\nA boat will take us to a distant shore<br \/>\nThe water: time, we travel to our past<br \/>\nThe world we knew was never so much more<br \/>\nThan rocks which tower never built to last<br \/>\nThe bullet strikes I put away my gun<br \/>\nThe monolith collapses in the sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monolith sits reaching for the sky My gun in hand I aim and slowly fire Time slows, I watch the bullet as it flies I wait and watch I know I cannot tire She waits behind me with a book in hand She watches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18570,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563\/revisions\/18570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}