{"id":31870,"date":"2017-08-05T09:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31870"},"modified":"2017-08-05T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:48:38","slug":"quintessence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/quintessence\/","title":{"rendered":"Quintessence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extend your hand until it touches<br \/>\nmy skin or until the sand falls through<br \/>\nextended fingers, caught by the wind<br \/>\nand blown to the distant sea.<\/p>\n<p>I have longed for your touch but I<br \/>\nunderstand it is nothing but carbon animated<br \/>\nby fire and blood and a cloud of angry<br \/>\nelectrons, impossibly distant.<\/p>\n<p>Some say we are nothing but stardust,<br \/>\nso why this keening for what is lost?<\/p>\n<p>The fifth element lies within, buried<br \/>\nin the reliquary of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extend your hand until it touches my skin or until the sand falls through extended fingers, caught by the wind and blown to the distant sea. I have longed for your touch but I understand it is nothing but carbon animated by fire and blood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31870","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\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31929,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31870\/revisions\/31929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}