{"id":20726,"date":"2016-08-13T13:56:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20726"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:56:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:56:51","slug":"the-dropped-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-dropped-match\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dropped Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">The air thickens<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">miasma<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Blood orange sun touches mountain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">scorches<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Vapours curl on eddies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">pungent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Flames creep over parched ground<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">crackle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Building momentum rising<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">hugging<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Trees stand defiant shrubs wither<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">crisp<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Creatures scurry frantic directionless<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">screams<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fire-fighters scramble water flows<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">hiss<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Steam rises heat dissipates sun sets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">calm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air thickens miasma Blood orange sun touches mountain scorches Vapours curl on eddies pungent Flames creep over parched ground crackle Building momentum rising hugging Trees stand defiant shrubs wither crisp Creatures scurry frantic directionless screams Fire-fighters scramble water flows hiss Steam rises heat dissipates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":862,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[73,1510],"class_list":["post-20726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-fire","tag-senses","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726","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\/862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20745,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions\/20745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}