{"id":29147,"date":"2016-08-14T17:25:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T21:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=29147"},"modified":"2016-08-14T17:26:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T21:26:25","slug":"tunnel-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/tunnel-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the grey rough cut stone I imagined the cutting;<\/p>\n<p>no hands did this. \u00a0Words did. \u00a0Glorious, ancient words; unheard by ears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let there be&#8221;&#8230;. land divided from water.<\/p>\n<p>Every grain of life. \u00a0Every thought he had thought, vision he had seen now came forth.<\/p>\n<p>Formed out of the dust was man&#8230;. but before that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>creation. Land and sea, birds and creatures, time.<\/p>\n<p>These ageless tunnels&#8230; were they from the beginning or was it the flood that cut them through. \u00a0the opening up of the deep?<\/p>\n<p>I will never know. \u00a0I like it that way. \u00a0The mystery of earth allures me to the mystery of God. \u00a0And If I can&#8217;t explain this&#8230; how will I ever explain the creator?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the grey rough cut stone I imagined the cutting; no hands did this. \u00a0Words did. \u00a0Glorious, ancient words; unheard by ears. &#8220;Let there be&#8221;&#8230;. land divided from water. Every grain of life. \u00a0Every thought he had thought, vision he had seen now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29147","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\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29148,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29147\/revisions\/29148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}