{"id":24857,"date":"2016-08-13T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24857"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:52:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:52:47","slug":"charlies-endless-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/charlies-endless-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie&#8217;s Endless Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Snow-dusted evergreens stretch to the horizon<br \/>\nSilent sentinels, impassive,<br \/>\nUnapologetic, swaying in winter&#8217;s ice-gilded night<\/p>\n<p>The Wild&#8217;s indifference terrifying<br \/>\nNot some anthropomorphized maternal nature goddess<br \/>\nBut harsh brutality of a land rife with danger,<br \/>\nRife with threat,<br \/>\nThe spine-prickling howls of hungry wolves almost inaudible over his chattering teeth<\/p>\n<p>He knows he cannot sleep<br \/>\nCannot drift into the Dreamworld this icy night,<br \/>\nKnows that if he makes that journey he will not return<br \/>\nHis inner fire burning, yearning to survive he trudges on<\/p>\n<p>And on<\/p>\n<p>And on<\/p>\n<p>Until at last he stumbles through icy crust into the freezing white embrace<br \/>\nHe waits, body quaking, frozen breath escaping until&#8230;<br \/>\nThe shivers fade and Charlie enters the Dreamworld<br \/>\nA smile upon his face<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow-dusted evergreens stretch to the horizon Silent sentinels, impassive, Unapologetic, swaying in winter&#8217;s ice-gilded night The Wild&#8217;s indifference terrifying Not some anthropomorphized maternal nature goddess But harsh brutality of a land rife with danger, Rife with threat, The spine-prickling howls of hungry wolves almost inaudible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24857","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\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25317,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24857\/revisions\/25317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}