{"id":24545,"date":"2016-08-13T20:28:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24545"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:28:26","slug":"moon-bathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/moon-bathing\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon Bathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Moon Bathing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The moon cast silver on her<\/p>\n<p>ivory skin making her seem<\/p>\n<p>translucent<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>metallic,<\/p>\n<p>he could not decide which \u2013<\/p>\n<p>but she was beautiful<\/p>\n<p>bathing in the silver lake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He could sing the glory<\/p>\n<p>of her<\/p>\n<p>silver skin to<\/p>\n<p>all the Gods<\/p>\n<p>of the pantheon<\/p>\n<p>but<\/p>\n<p>he did not want to<\/p>\n<p>panic her \u2013<\/p>\n<p>he knew what became of<\/p>\n<p>those who<\/p>\n<p>glimpsed her<\/p>\n<p>beautiful, bathing body:<\/p>\n<p>some became stags for her to hunt,<\/p>\n<p>some became moored from lack of wind,<\/p>\n<p>or were simply struck down on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But he was safe,<\/p>\n<p>in the shadow of the canopy,<\/p>\n<p>and admired her as she bathed.<\/p>\n<p>He was<\/p>\n<p>the one who got away.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 R. L. Elke 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon Bathing \u00a0 The moon cast silver on her ivory skin making her seem translucent or metallic, he could not decide which \u2013 but she was beautiful bathing in the silver lake. &nbsp; He could sing the glory of her silver skin to all the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24625,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545\/revisions\/24625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}