{"id":40607,"date":"2017-08-06T01:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40607"},"modified":"2017-08-06T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T15:43:15","slug":"death-resists-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/death-resists-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Resists Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and proverb too,<br \/>\nits walls unblemished<br \/>\nby strikes that snuff<br \/>\nthe brightest stars.<\/p>\n<p>Pick one,<br \/>\ntoss it to the grieving.<br \/>\nStudy their faces<br \/>\nfor gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>Now picture this:<br \/>\nYou cradle your<br \/>\nbreathless child,<br \/>\nkiss his face,<br \/>\nsurrender her to<br \/>\nmen in masks<br \/>\nand gowns.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the<br \/>\nsound of an<br \/>\nempty glass,<br \/>\nthat metaphor<br \/>\nunfurled to<br \/>\ncomfort you.<\/p>\n<h4>Prompt 17<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and proverb too, its walls unblemished by strikes that snuff the brightest stars. Pick one, toss it to the grieving. Study their faces for gratitude. Now picture this: You cradle your breathless child, kiss his face, surrender her to men in masks and gowns. Imagine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[2228,51,1204,2757,15,10,964],"class_list":["post-40607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2017poetrymarathon","tag-death","tag-grief","tag-metaphor","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-proverb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40607","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=40607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40712,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40607\/revisions\/40712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}