{"id":36325,"date":"2017-08-05T17:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36325"},"modified":"2017-08-07T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:06:37","slug":"the-river-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-river-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">The soup between us is colorless and it&#8217;s thought to be<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">liquid, but it could be energy or some mercurial substance<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">we haven&#8217;t discovered yet. It&#8217;s warm and cold depending<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">on\u00a0outside configurations of clouds and wind and moisture\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">but basically it&#8217;s without temperature or solidity or liquidity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">The soup between us has no taste\u2014unless the dairy farm&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">nearby or the lumberyard\u2014a dirty clothes hamper, but still<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">that&#8217;s not it. It&#8217;s not the transmitter we call &#8220;the soup&#8221; for lack<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">of a better name. Well, perhaps the river that connects up all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">The river, yes&#8211;that&#8217;s it. \u201cThe river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soup between us is colorless and it&#8217;s thought to be liquid, but it could be energy or some mercurial substance we haven&#8217;t discovered yet. It&#8217;s warm and cold depending on\u00a0outside configurations of clouds and wind and moisture\u2014 but basically it&#8217;s without temperature or solidity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325","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\/1134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36407,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325\/revisions\/36407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}