{"id":31706,"date":"2017-08-05T09:27:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31706"},"modified":"2017-08-05T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:27:03","slug":"2017-poetry-marathon-hour-one-the-hot-hazy-days-of-summer-or-a-test-run-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/2017-poetry-marathon-hour-one-the-hot-hazy-days-of-summer-or-a-test-run-in-disguise\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Poetry Marathon, Hour One: The hot, hazy days of summer? Or a test run in disguise\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Smoke fans out from the fire<\/em><br \/>\n<em> travelling hundreds of miles<\/em><br \/>\n<em> in search of its own demise<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But it cannot escape the heat<\/em><br \/>\n<em> however far it flees from the flames<\/em><br \/>\n<em> the sun will still have its way<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Clouds provide no relief<\/em><br \/>\n<em> it has been 49 days since last rainfall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> the sky is empty<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or is it a case of misplaced irony\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Trapped between sky and earth<\/em><br \/>\n<em> mitigating otherwise oppressive heat<\/em><br \/>\n<em> wishing for rain\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(5 August 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke fans out from the fire travelling hundreds of miles in search of its own demise But it cannot escape the heat however far it flees from the flames the sun will still have its way Clouds provide no relief it has been 49 days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2133,2136,2135,2134,436,1628],"class_list":["post-31706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2017-poetry-marathon","tag-august-2017","tag-elements","tag-half-marathon-for-now","tag-hour-one","tag-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706","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\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31725,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706\/revisions\/31725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}