{"id":18758,"date":"2016-08-13T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18758"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:06:19","slug":"going-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/going-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising to the fourteenth floor of the posh hotel<br \/>\nin the center of the cold city,<br \/>\nthe beep of each passing level took me back<br \/>\nto the screams of life giving machines<br \/>\nthat doled out survival with sighs and repeated<br \/>\ntones, monotonous and vital.<\/p>\n<p>Here I am ascending to a place in the sky<br \/>\nyou will never experience.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m looking at city lights and animated gestures<br \/>\nthat strangers below exchange&#8211;smiling, linking<br \/>\nhands and hearts this side of the eternal.<br \/>\nI am comforted by the faith that you<br \/>\nhave moved to a castle above it all and<br \/>\nwish this rising room would open its doors<br \/>\nand reveal the place you now call home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising to the fourteenth floor of the posh hotel in the center of the cold city, the beep of each passing level took me back to the screams of life giving machines that doled out survival with sighs and repeated tones, monotonous and vital. Here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758","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\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18953,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758\/revisions\/18953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}