{"id":33910,"date":"2017-08-05T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33910"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:09:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:09:05","slug":"the-gondolier-random-prompt-a-poem-about-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-gondolier-random-prompt-a-poem-about-solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gondolier (Random Prompt – A poem about solitude)"},"content":{"rendered":"

His skiff is full of provisions –<\/p>\n

Wine and cheese, sweet fruits,<\/p>\n

An umbrella to shade lovers,<\/p>\n

soft blankets for chilly nights,<\/p>\n

an old mandolin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are mirages out here –<\/p>\n

the call of sirens, chimeras of dry land,<\/p>\n

adventures, bird song and ripe coconuts.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He saw the last lovers during the flood,<\/p>\n

after all the promises had broken,<\/p>\n

Pieces of a shipwreck,<\/p>\n

swept away, reaching for each other<\/p>\n

pulled apart.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The gondolier still sings to the stars<\/p>\n

And to the old city<\/p>\n

far below the mirror of the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His skiff is full of provisions – Wine and cheese, sweet fruits, An umbrella to shade lovers, soft blankets for chilly nights, an old mandolin. \u00a0 There are mirages out here – the call of sirens, chimeras of dry land, adventures, bird song and ripe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33910","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\/1078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35245,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33910\/revisions\/35245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}