{"id":32499,"date":"2017-08-05T10:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32499"},"modified":"2017-08-05T10:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:39:04","slug":"hour-2-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-2-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he walks through the rust<br \/>\nby the sand worn<br \/>\ntin box houses<br \/>\nwith a canvas<br \/>\nlike a white beacon amongst the<br \/>\nblizzard of yellow and yellow turned reds and blues and grays<br \/>\nhe comes to a halt<br \/>\nat the brick end<br \/>\nof his venture<br \/>\nthe canvas binds into the scorched red<br \/>\nthen paint<br \/>\na fury of fresh colors enters the air<br \/>\nlanding violently on the canvas<br \/>\nno sand penetrates them<br \/>\nthey move freely<br \/>\nlike the juice of a tomato<br \/>\nlike the stain of grass<br \/>\nall foreign to the alleys<br \/>\nin which they meet<br \/>\na yellow<br \/>\nmuch brighter then the<br \/>\narcane sand<br \/>\nhits by the mans hand<br \/>\nnow he feels the fabric of the canvas<br \/>\nresonating<br \/>\ncolors<br \/>\nnow meeting and parting<br \/>\nand conceiving<br \/>\nby the dry leather textured brush-like<br \/>\nhand<br \/>\nof their conductor<br \/>\nswift work<br \/>\nno borders<br \/>\nno chains<br \/>\nthe paint drips and<br \/>\nmarks<br \/>\nbeyond its once pure<br \/>\nconfines<br \/>\ntill the wall is cloaked<br \/>\nfrom intrusion<br \/>\nsand grains fall inside<br \/>\nwith no effect on the magnificent creation.<br \/>\nthe creator turns and slowly trudges<br \/>\nback and back<br \/>\nonce again concealed in the<br \/>\nunforgiving sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he walks through the rust by the sand worn tin box houses with a canvas like a white beacon amongst the blizzard of yellow and yellow turned reds and blues and grays he comes to a halt at the brick end of his venture the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":940,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32499","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\/940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32507,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32499\/revisions\/32507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}