{"id":32066,"date":"2017-08-05T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32066"},"modified":"2017-08-05T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:00:37","slug":"hour-1-making-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-1-making-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1: Making Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><\/p>\n<p>Hi all, here's my hour 1 poem. I don't know how many people outside the UK have heard this on their news channels, but we had a big fire in a tower block in London recently, when the exterior cladding turned out not to be fire resistant. In the weeks following it appears that there are a lot of tower blocks that have the same unsafe cladding.<\/p>\n<p>In the air section, the SOx are sulphur Oxides, NOx are nitrogen oxides and VOC are volatile organic compounds, all the stuff that pollutes the air.<\/p>\n<p>Giles<\/p>\n<h1>Making Money<\/h1>\n<p>Arms sheathed in starry<br \/>\nsleeves of shimmering silver <br \/>\nshe waves the downpour<br \/>\nonto philosopher's red sulphur,<br \/>\ntransmuting drops into coins of gold<br \/>\nthat slip through fingers<br \/>\nas fleating as a dream.<\/p>\n<p>Firey industry forging the means<br \/>\nto speed out of sight,<br \/>\nfaster than sound,<br \/>\nrocketing up the sides<br \/>\nof ill-clad towers<br \/>\nreturning residents to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Inhaling the air of city streets<br \/>\nrich with invisible acronyms <br \/>\nnutritionally empty, <br \/>\npoetically dense,<br \/>\nNOx and SOx, and Vocs<br \/>\nozone depleting substances <br \/>\nknocks and socks drip off a chemist's tongue.<\/p>\n<p>Pity the earth,<br \/>\nbearer of all<br \/>\nas she watches her fading capital<br \/>\nas those whose dreams<br \/>\nexceed her resource.<\/p>\n<p>\\ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, here&#8217;s my hour 1 poem. I don&#8217;t know how many people outside the UK have heard this on their news channels, but we had a big fire in a tower block in London recently, when the exterior cladding turned out not to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":964,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32066","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\/964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32077,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32066\/revisions\/32077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}