{"id":35385,"date":"2017-08-05T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35385"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:57:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:57:43","slug":"ballad-of-the-bacterium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/ballad-of-the-bacterium\/","title":{"rendered":"Lament of the Bacterium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end is near<br \/>\nThe noxious oozes are making me<br \/>\nswell beyond my control<br \/>\nand soon I will burst<\/p>\n<p>Before all of this,<br \/>\nlife was ok<br \/>\nwith a regularity and order<br \/>\nand a common understanding among the all of the beings<\/p>\n<p>Then without warning,<br \/>\nI was separated from my kin<br \/>\nas there was such a rush of movement<br \/>\nthat swept me up and pushed me down into the chasm<\/p>\n<p>There was food everywhere<br \/>\nand I ate, divided,<br \/>\nate some more, and divided<br \/>\nuntil I had become many<\/p>\n<p>I had heard rumors of<br \/>\ngiant billowy white blobs<br \/>\nthat could vacuum many of us up<br \/>\nbut the cornucopia of this new land was intoxicating<\/p>\n<p>Then, just like that,<br \/>\nit all went wrong.<br \/>\nWe were dying all of me<br \/>\nI knew it couldn&#8217;t go on for ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end is near The noxious oozes are making me swell beyond my control and soon I will burst Before all of this, life was ok with a regularity and order and a common understanding among the all of the beings Then without warning, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35385","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\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35744,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35385\/revisions\/35744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}