{"id":27399,"date":"2016-08-14T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T08:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27399"},"modified":"2016-08-14T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T08:39:08","slug":"prompt-20-hour-20-ekphrastic-poem-the-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/prompt-20-hour-20-ekphrastic-poem-the-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 20 &#8211; Hour 20 &#8211; ekphrastic poem &#8211; &#8220;The Mission&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia sat with her friend Ollie the bear,<br \/>\nas she waited for her two friends, Oxie the<br \/>\nfox and Ellie the elephant calf<\/p>\n<p>Today was a bright, sunny day &#8212; perfect<br \/>\nfor their planned picnic. Olivia had worn<br \/>\nher favourite red and green dress<\/p>\n<p>Oxie came running as fast as his legs could<br \/>\ncarry him. &#8220;Ellie has fallen into a pit, and<br \/>\nis in pain&#8221;, he told them<\/p>\n<p>They discussed on how to get Ellie out, the role<br \/>\neach would play. Olivia grabbed a nearby rope,<br \/>\nthey followed as Oxie led the way<\/p>\n<p>Oxie would lead them to the location and then<br \/>\nset off to find Ellie&#8217;s mother, Ella. His fox<br \/>\nfriends were already searching for her<\/p>\n<p>Ollie would get down into the pit and try to<br \/>\npush Ellie up. Olivia would tie the rope on<br \/>\nEllie&#8217;s legs and slowly pull him up<\/p>\n<p>By then, Oxie would bring Ella, who would<br \/>\ncheck Ellie and ensure she is fine. They<br \/>\nwould all rest after their effort<\/p>\n<p>Three determined friends, walked briskly,<br \/>\nto rescue Ellie, so that they could enjoy<br \/>\nthe picnic on this perfect, sunny day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia sat with her friend Ollie the bear, as she waited for her two friends, Oxie the fox and Ellie the elephant calf Today was a bright, sunny day &#8212; perfect for their planned picnic. Olivia had worn her favourite red and green dress Oxie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[1366],"class_list":["post-27399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-ekphrastic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27399","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\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27407,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27399\/revisions\/27407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}