{"id":39043,"date":"2017-08-05T21:42:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39043"},"modified":"2017-08-25T15:18:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T19:18:28","slug":"time-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/time-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->If there was truth to linear time,<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t know you when we wake up tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Sun would rise on seemingly its own agenda<\/p>\n<p>the moon would come unexpectedly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The landscape of your skin would be new with every touch<\/p>\n<p>and the sound of your voice different every time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If there was truth to linear time,<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it would be easier to rest in the now<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every second on the clock&#8217;s face would have a story to tell<\/p>\n<p>but no one would return to listen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d leave them alone<\/p>\n<p>blinded by the shine of the next moment&#8217;s pass<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39117\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clocks_in_Candlelight-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clocks_in_Candlelight-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clocks_in_Candlelight-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clocks_in_Candlelight-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clocks_in_Candlelight-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clocks_in_Candlelight.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Photo: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/44493439@N00\" rel=\"nofollow\">Janusz Leszczynski<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":907,"featured_media":39117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[2228,680,2133,146,15,391,2116,392],"class_list":["post-39043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2017poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-2017-poetry-marathon","tag-love-inspiration","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetrymarathon2017","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39043","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\/907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44620,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39043\/revisions\/44620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}