{"id":38986,"date":"2017-08-05T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38986"},"modified":"2017-08-13T23:25:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T03:25:11","slug":"carrying-a-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/carrying-a-torch\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrying a Torch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To the Muse of Forever Love<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carrying a torch,<\/p>\n<p>they call it,<\/p>\n<p>but I have ignited<\/p>\n<p>both ends<\/p>\n<p>and swallowed flames,<\/p>\n<p>impelling spears of consecrated<\/p>\n<p>Light<\/p>\n<p>deep into the heartland<\/p>\n<p>of my soul.<\/p>\n<p>J. Pratt-Walter, (c) 8\/2017<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39019\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tulip-flame-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tulip-flame-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tulip-flame-768x962.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tulip-flame-818x1024.jpg 818w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tulip-flame.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Muse of Forever Love Carrying a torch, they call it, but I have ignited both ends and swallowed flames, impelling spears of consecrated Light deep into the heartland of my soul. J. Pratt-Walter, (c) 8\/2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38986","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\/1133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44374,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38986\/revisions\/44374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}