{"id":39070,"date":"2017-08-05T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39070"},"modified":"2017-08-05T22:28:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T02:28:55","slug":"weight-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/weight-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight of The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lennon wrote,<br \/>\n\u201cShe\u2019s so heavy,\u201d<br \/>\nand suddenly, in the<br \/>\nmiddle of the refrain,<br \/>\nshe was. As though<br \/>\nJupiter broke free,<br \/>\nsoared past the moon<br \/>\ncapturing the earth<br \/>\nin its wake. In an<br \/>\ninstant, 9.8 m\/s^2<br \/>\nramps to 12.7 m\/s^3,<br \/>\n12.7^4 m\/s^10,<br \/>\n12.7^4^4 m\/s^10^2<br \/>\nand she was more<br \/>\nsurprised than<br \/>\nany of us, one moment<br \/>\nspeaking of gravitas in<br \/>\nEliot\u2019s <em>Wasteland<\/em>,<br \/>\nthe next moment<br \/>\nbreaking through the<br \/>\nfloor, the floor below,<br \/>\nthe ground floor,<br \/>\nthe cellar floor,<br \/>\ncollapsing,<br \/>\ncondensing,<br \/>\na shining sphere<br \/>\nspinning faster than<br \/>\nlight, accreting dust,<br \/>\nconcrete, books, lamps,<br \/>\nthe garage door, the<br \/>\nutility shelf along with<br \/>\nevery tool stored,<br \/>\ndragging us with her<br \/>\nacross the event<br \/>\nhorizon.<\/p>\n<p>(Hour 13 prompt)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39197\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39197 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gravity-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Falling into Gravty\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gravity-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gravity-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gravity-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gravity.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gravity Illustration courtesy of einstein.stanford.edu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SaveSave<\/p>\n<p><span>Save<\/span><span>Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lennon wrote, \u201cShe\u2019s so heavy,\u201d and suddenly, in the middle of the refrain, she was. As though Jupiter broke free, soared past the moon capturing the earth in its wake. In an instant, 9.8 m\/s^2 ramps to 12.7 m\/s^3, 12.7^4 m\/s^10, 12.7^4^4 m\/s^10^2 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2228,2559,627,2560,10,2561],"class_list":["post-39070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2017poetrymarathon","tag-event-horizon","tag-gravity","tag-john-lennon","tag-poetry","tag-the-wasteland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39070","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\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39484,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39070\/revisions\/39484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}