{"id":35394,"date":"2017-08-05T15:20:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35394"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:20:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:20:16","slug":"hour-seven-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-seven-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Explanation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It should come as no surprise to anyone<\/p>\n<p>that day should end and night should come,<\/p>\n<p>as winter follows fall, and the fields turn black<\/p>\n<p>or white, as the season freezes the earth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even the stars must burn out and die,<\/p>\n<p>snuffed like cinders in the lampblack sky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From starstuff we arise, and to the sky<\/p>\n<p>we rise again, even as we are buried,<\/p>\n<p>like seeds, in hopes of a resurrection<\/p>\n<p>or burned, hearkening to our astral origin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even the earth falls back to the sun,<\/p>\n<p>and the sun rises and falls into itself, a stillquiet corpse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It should come as no surprise to anyone<\/p>\n<p>that a stargazer should feel no fear<\/p>\n<p>ascending as she descends<\/p>\n<p>stillquiet and singing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Explanation &nbsp; It should come as no surprise to anyone that day should end and night should come, as winter follows fall, and the fields turn black or white, as the season freezes the earth. &nbsp; Even the stars must burn out and die,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35394","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\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35410,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35394\/revisions\/35410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}