{"id":39116,"date":"2017-08-05T21:41:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39116"},"modified":"2017-08-05T21:41:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:41:41","slug":"the-cosmos-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-cosmos-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cosmos Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the world stopped spinning,<br \/>\nYou with shallow grips on realty<br \/>\nWould hurl to space, flora and<br \/>\nFauna: trees, mountain tops,<br \/>\nCats, mothers, SUV\u2019s, and dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Or the endless day burning on<br \/>\nWould singe sight, burn stars<br \/>\nAnd the Northern Lights? Out.<br \/>\nThe moon, introverted admirer,<br \/>\nWould silently spin out alone.<\/p>\n<p>The earth\u2019s sudden surcease<br \/>\nMay clear the planet of drift<br \/>\nAnd all living slack and softly<br \/>\nYet we who levitate, risen up,<br \/>\nAfloat on lily pads and dust\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The cosmos cops wave us on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the world stopped spinning, You with shallow grips on realty Would hurl to space, flora and Fauna: trees, mountain tops, Cats, mothers, SUV\u2019s, and dirt. Or the endless day burning on Would singe sight, burn stars And the Northern Lights? Out. The moon, introverted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39116","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39120,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39116\/revisions\/39120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}