{"id":26157,"date":"2016-08-14T00:06:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T04:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26157"},"modified":"2016-09-12T22:22:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T02:22:30","slug":"the-12th-hour-a-poem-dedicated-to-luna-and-the-man-in-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-12th-hour-a-poem-dedicated-to-luna-and-the-man-in-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12th hour a poem dedicated to Luna&#8230;and the Man in the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th hour a poem dedicated to Luna&#8230;and the Man in the Moon<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Moon<\/em> high in the sky looking down on us.<\/p>\n<p>I see the face of a boy child in 3-D, just my brother and me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to determine his nationality.<\/p>\n<p>He has a tapered haircut and a friendly face.<\/p>\n<p>I first saw him many moons ago, his expression reflected on a computer screen under the protective <em>canopy<\/em> of the <em>Great Lakes<\/em> and the state it nestles in-between.<\/p>\n<p>If you turn your head just so, you will see another little person, a little girl that my boyfriend says matter-of-factly looks just like me&#8230; a little\u00a0Shirley Temple in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>glory <\/em>and pride I feel inside was discovering this feat with my brother who is like no other.<\/p>\n<p>We <em>spare <\/em>no time to uncover the mysteries of the sky when we can.<\/p>\n<p>We almost fell asleep laughing into the wee hours of the night, yet for the record please let it stand he does not allow me to fall asleep in his room.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve grown too old for this I know, but I still try to stay up, just to get a few more laughs in before it\u2019s gets too late.<\/p>\n<p>Until the next visit, at least we know, we all share the same moon from down below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th hour a poem dedicated to Luna&#8230;and the Man in the Moon Moon high in the sky looking down on us. I see the face of a boy child in 3-D, just my brother and me. It&#8217;s hard to determine his nationality. He has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":6141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26157","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\/785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26157"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30085,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26157\/revisions\/30085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}