{"id":38926,"date":"2017-08-05T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38926"},"modified":"2017-08-05T21:34:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:34:10","slug":"hour-thirteen-change-in-the-laws-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-thirteen-change-in-the-laws-of-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Thirteen, Change in the laws of physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perpetual Motion<\/p>\n<p>A world without inertia<br \/>\nwould at first seem a paradise.<br \/>\nNothing would slow us down<br \/>\nas we glided around, flitting<br \/>\nlike jeweled insects through<br \/>\ndaily tasks, dancers flying<br \/>\nthrough the air, creating aerial<br \/>\ndisplays that no longer defied<br \/>\ndeath, one push of a windmill&#8217;s<br \/>\nblades would power all of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>But,<\/p>\n<p>eventually the dancers would tire,<br \/>\nthe windmill&#8217;s blades would break,<br \/>\nwe would willfully tie ourselves<br \/>\ndown, in the desperate hope<br \/>\nfor stillness, for silence, for calm.<br \/>\nWe need adversity, consciously<br \/>\nslowing down our world to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perpetual Motion A world without inertia would at first seem a paradise. Nothing would slow us down as we glided around, flitting like jeweled insects through daily tasks, dancers flying through the air, creating aerial displays that no longer defied death, one push of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38926","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39074,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38926\/revisions\/39074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}