{"id":41234,"date":"2017-08-06T03:33:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41234"},"modified":"2017-08-06T03:33:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:33:57","slug":"the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-milky-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">That night, I stood opposite\u00a0of <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Cassiopeia <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">reading for her\u00a0as she smiled at me, iciness <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">separating us. I floated from her grasp<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">into outer space,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">steam rising,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">naked, exposed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Orion hovered, casting a shadow<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">over her love, eyes locking with mine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">I sipped from the Big Dipper, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">and spent 84 years traveling with Uranus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">I dated Aquarius, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">befriended Ursa Minor, that lovable bear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">surfed on the rings of Jupiter, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">laughing without a sound. I danced a slow dance <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">with each of Saturn\u2019s moons, taking a bow after the ninth <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">set me free. My muted mouth moving, wordless. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The queen gazed in the\u00a0mirror<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">as I backfloated through the Milky Way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That night, I stood opposite\u00a0of Cassiopeia reading for her\u00a0as she smiled at me, iciness separating us. I floated from her grasp into outer space, steam rising, naked, exposed. \u00a0 Orion hovered, casting a shadow over her love, eyes locking with mine. I sipped from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234","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\/1028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41257,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234\/revisions\/41257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}