{"id":23110,"date":"2016-08-13T17:46:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23110"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:47:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:47:32","slug":"these-modern-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/these-modern-times\/","title":{"rendered":"These modern times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brought to a lake<br \/>\nsix-thousand-feet up in<br \/>\nthe Colorado Rockies<br \/>\nforty years have passed<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23118\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poetrymarathon2016-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"poetrymarathon2016\" width=\"289\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poetrymarathon2016-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poetrymarathon2016-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poetrymarathon2016-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poetrymarathon2016-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><br \/>\nand I wonder if it is<br \/>\nthe altitude or the view<br \/>\nrepossessing my breath<br \/>\nhave found us goat-like<br \/>\non the move, jumping from<br \/>\nrock-to-rock tempting<br \/>\nfoot-soaking fate or worse<\/p>\n<p>I would have scoffed at<br \/>\na lake with a boardwalk as<br \/>\nbeing for lesser mortals<br \/>\nunaccustomed to really living<\/p>\n<p>the silliness of that obvious<br \/>\nthe caution born of experience<br \/>\noverrides residual machismo<\/p>\n<p>I acquiesce to the boardwalk<br \/>\ntake a stroll, stop. Discard footwear.<\/p>\n<p>Feet can get wet on purpose here.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8211; Mark L. Lucker<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2016<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brought to a lake six-thousand-feet up in the Colorado Rockies forty years have passed and I wonder if it is the altitude or the view repossessing my breath have found us goat-like on the move, jumping from rock-to-rock tempting foot-soaking fate or worse I would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[734,736],"class_list":["post-23110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-hour-9-prompt","tag-prompt-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23110","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23163,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23110\/revisions\/23163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}