{"id":26422,"date":"2016-08-14T00:56:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26422"},"modified":"2019-06-15T07:36:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T11:36:20","slug":"a-poet-does-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/a-poet-does-math\/","title":{"rendered":"A poet does math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I counted stars once<\/p>\n<p>not for any practical reason<\/p>\n<p>not for romance<\/p>\n<p>they patiently waited for me<\/p>\n<p>to finish, as if they cared<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was sitting by a campfire<\/p>\n<p>spitting it&#8217;s cinders as<\/p>\n<p>part of the evening&#8217;s death throes<\/p>\n<p>they fluttered skyward<\/p>\n<p>before dissolving<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I could not help but wonder<\/p>\n<p>if that is how stars<\/p>\n<p>came to be; not as burned out<\/p>\n<p>remnants from elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>in the far-flung galaxy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>stars may be campfire embers<\/p>\n<p>that made their<\/p>\n<p>great escape and were<\/p>\n<p>thus rewarded with eternal life<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I counted stars once<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>-Mark L. Lucker<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2016<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I counted stars once not for any practical reason not for romance they patiently waited for me to finish, as if they cared &nbsp; I was sitting by a campfire spitting it&#8217;s cinders as part of the evening&#8217;s death throes they fluttered skyward before dissolving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,1],"tags":[1965,945,944,477],"class_list":["post-26422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-uncategorized","tag-campfires","tag-hour-16-prompt","tag-prompt-16","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422","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=26422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45296,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422\/revisions\/45296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}