{"id":26572,"date":"2016-08-14T02:18:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26572"},"modified":"2016-08-14T02:18:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:18:32","slug":"hour-15-lightning-averted-gaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-15-lightning-averted-gaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 15: Lightning Averted Gaze."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>strike from the sky,<br \/>\nyou&#8230;like some deity,<br \/>\nas always, like&#8230;<br \/>\nZeus&#8230;who intensified every living thing,<br \/>\nfrom out of the soul and into my mouth.<br \/>\navoided eye contact, set the match of fire,<br \/>\nturned straight to gathering flame,<br \/>\nstatic, electric,<br \/>\nknew what you were doing,<br \/>\nintensified,<br \/>\nheat,<br \/>\nradiation,<br \/>\nenergy,<br \/>\nlightning averted gaze,<br \/>\ncan you hear the thundering? rapturous and violent, like you and I bid myself to your power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>strike from the sky, you&#8230;like some deity, as always, like&#8230; Zeus&#8230;who intensified every living thing, from out of the soul and into my mouth. avoided eye contact, set the match of fire, turned straight to gathering flame, static, electric, knew what you were doing, intensified,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26829,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572\/revisions\/26829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}