{"id":22040,"date":"2016-08-13T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22040"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:34:56","slug":"disappearing-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/disappearing-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappearing Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megalomaniac vs. another Megalomaniac<br \/>\nGMO vs. non-GMO<br \/>\nConservation vs. Development<br \/>\nArtisan vs. Factory made<br \/>\nCitizen vs. Immigrant<br \/>\nProtestors vs. Police<br \/>\nSafety vs. Freedom<br \/>\nHate vs. Love<\/p>\n<p>Most of this frustrates me<br \/>\nSome of it angers me<br \/>\nAll of it worries me<\/p>\n<p>However<br \/>\nThe thing that really keeps me up at night<br \/>\nIs the darkening sky<br \/>\nHas anyone else noticed?<br \/>\nI remember how it used to sparkle<br \/>\nSo bright<br \/>\nSo vivid<br \/>\nFull of detailed constellations<br \/>\nMapping mythological tales<br \/>\nand fantastic adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them seem to be getting further away<br \/>\nfading, blurring, shrinking<br \/>\nSome just disappear<\/p>\n<p>Up in the mountains, I can sometimes see them better<br \/>\nCloser, still matching my memories.<br \/>\nBut in the city, they start hiding again.<br \/>\nHow will we get them back?<br \/>\nWhat will happen when they all decide to leave?<\/p>\n<p>When the night sky no longer twinkles, and the planets turn dark<br \/>\nWill it all signal the end?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, I need a visit to the eye doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megalomaniac vs. another Megalomaniac GMO vs. non-GMO Conservation vs. Development Artisan vs. Factory made Citizen vs. Immigrant Protestors vs. Police Safety vs. Freedom Hate vs. Love Most of this frustrates me Some of it angers me All of it worries me However The thing that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1604],"class_list":["post-22040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour-seven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22040","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22313,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22040\/revisions\/22313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}