{"id":41173,"date":"2017-08-06T03:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41173"},"modified":"2017-08-06T03:24:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:24:51","slug":"blame-it-on-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/blame-it-on-bowie\/","title":{"rendered":"blame it on bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>blame it on bowie<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>you always wanted to go into space \u2013<\/p>\n<p>maybe it was Bowie\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n<p>I never understood the appeal of the stars as a travel destination<\/p>\n<p>but I know you loved it so I tried to understand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love the physics \u2013<\/p>\n<p>what I understand<\/p>\n<p>of quasars,<\/p>\n<p>nebulae,<\/p>\n<p>constellations,<\/p>\n<p>and shooting stars bringing us messages from distant suns.<\/p>\n<p>the science saves the rest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to fly or dive or die<\/p>\n<p>in space where no one hears you scream.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But I know you love it,<\/p>\n<p>so I try to understand.<\/p>\n<p>R. L. Elke<\/p>\n<p>(C)Aug 5\/17\u00a0 prompt 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blame it on bowie \u00a0 you always wanted to go into space \u2013 maybe it was Bowie\u2019s fault. I never understood the appeal of the stars as a travel destination but I know you loved it so I tried to understand. &nbsp; I love the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41173","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41183,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41173\/revisions\/41183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}