{"id":22667,"date":"2016-08-13T17:05:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22667"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:05:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:05:52","slug":"nine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/nine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/NINE-extrapolate.jpg\" alt=\"NINE - extrapolate the splotches\" width=\"500\" height=\"137\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/NINE-extrapolate.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/NINE-extrapolate-300x82.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The dog rolls over,<br \/>\nher belly a map of the world \u2014<br \/>\nislands and continents<br \/>\nfreckled on a pink sea.<br \/>\nIceland soft and smooth<br \/>\nwith fine blond hairs.<br \/>\nPolynesia. Sri Lanka.<br \/>\nOn the inner flank<br \/>\nof her hind leg the Galapagos,<br \/>\nwhere blue-footed boobies<br \/>\nsplatter the rocky headlands<br \/>\nwith their Jackson Pollock<br \/>\nsignature, startling still,<br \/>\nthough he\u2019s been gone<br \/>\nfor 60 years now, never<br \/>\naging, always 44 and bursting<br \/>\nwith paint \u2014 only my hands<br \/>\nleft to measure the turnings,<br \/>\na splash of spots random<br \/>\nas cooking grease<br \/>\nand even now I hope<br \/>\nto learn the hidden answers<br \/>\nif I can find the right sequence<br \/>\nto connect the dots.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 j.i. kleinberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dog rolls over, her belly a map of the world \u2014 islands and continents freckled on a pink sea. Iceland soft and smooth with fine blond hairs. Polynesia. Sri Lanka. On the inner flank of her hind leg the Galapagos, where blue-footed boobies splatter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1222,1319,1662,1335],"class_list":["post-22667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-aging","tag-j-i-kleinberg","tag-jackson-pollock","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22667","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\/721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22720,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22667\/revisions\/22720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}