{"id":20487,"date":"2016-08-13T13:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20487"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:30:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:30:23","slug":"poem-no-5-robot-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-no-5-robot-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem no.5: Robot Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alter &#8211; a robot with neural pathways &#8211; that can sing. <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-36973819<\/p>\n<p>She turns to us in silence,<br \/>\nHer movements Geisha-like in their simple beauty.<br \/>\nPoised. Ready. Empty-eyed.<br \/>\nHer voice is light as a plucked harp.<br \/>\nDelicate as a spiderweb.<br \/>\nThe song &#8211; like her &#8211; is bereft of language;<br \/>\nYet melody ripples from her curved lips<br \/>\nAnd soft notes soar<br \/>\nAs cameras flash and whirr.<br \/>\nThe metal bird without a soul<br \/>\nSings<br \/>\nIn her empty cage. <\/p>\n<p>(c) Anne McMaster 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alter &#8211; a robot with neural pathways &#8211; that can sing. http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-36973819 She turns to us in silence, Her movements Geisha-like in their simple beauty. Poised. Ready. Empty-eyed. Her voice is light as a plucked harp. Delicate as a spiderweb. The song &#8211; like her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20487","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20531,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20487\/revisions\/20531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}