{"id":25958,"date":"2016-08-14T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25958"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:32:16","slug":"meteors-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/meteors-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteors at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something so fascinating<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Watching the meteors at night<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Shooting \u00a0\u2018cross at lightning speed<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">A streak of the whitest light<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">I could lay on my back for hours<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">And watch the meteors streak past<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The aura in this cosmic super show<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Brings memories made to last<\/span><br \/>\nFor many years, I lay on my back<br \/>\nAlong the riverbed<br \/>\nAnd watched them streak across the black<br \/>\nDirectly o\u2019er my head<br \/>\nEach mid-August night, I stretched out mesmerized<br \/>\nBy something close, but far away<br \/>\nIf I\u2019d the chance to do so again<br \/>\nI\u2019d do so any day<\/p>\n<p>For there\u2019s still something iconic<br \/>\nAbout this great light show<br \/>\nThat brings to mind how small our planet is<br \/>\nAnd how little we still know<br \/>\nAbout the universe in whole<br \/>\nHow blurred the lines remain<br \/>\nSometimes, we see only the earth<br \/>\nWhen there\u2019s much we can\u2019t explain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something so fascinating Watching the meteors at night Shooting \u00a0\u2018cross at lightning speed A streak of the whitest light I could lay on my back for hours And watch the meteors streak past The aura in this cosmic super show Brings memories made to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[680,1927,1806,1928,1235,1157],"class_list":["post-25958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-cosmic-poetry","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-meteor-poetry","tag-perseid-meteor-shower","tag-poetrymarathon2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25970,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958\/revisions\/25970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}