{"id":38954,"date":"2017-08-05T21:17:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38954"},"modified":"2017-08-05T21:17:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:17:39","slug":"sad-but-not-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/sad-but-not-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad, but not Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What if the color blue never existed?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>What then would we do?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The sky would no longer be what we know<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We\u2019d lose beautiful bluebirds too.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The oceans would turn to grey<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Rainbows would break apart<\/em><br \/>\n<em>What if blue never existed?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We\u2019d lose so many works of art.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Van Gogh would lose his Starry Night<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Picasso\u2019s Blue Period would not prevail.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Chagall\u2019s Blue Angel would lose her wings<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So many paintings would surrender detail.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Even our moods would suffer.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If you are sad, you couldn\u2019t be blue.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Some people\u2019s eyes would not be able to conquer<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If there never, ever was blue.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if the color blue never existed? What then would we do? The sky would no longer be what we know We\u2019d lose beautiful bluebirds too. The oceans would turn to grey Rainbows would break apart What if blue never existed? We\u2019d lose so many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38961,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954\/revisions\/38961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}