{"id":41355,"date":"2017-08-06T04:02:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T08:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41355"},"modified":"2017-08-06T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T15:41:09","slug":"infinity-by-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/infinity-by-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinity by Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After dinner at Chez\u00a0D\u00e9sespoir,<br \/>\nwhen the wine, the brie,<br \/>\ncherry gazpacho, the sole,<br \/>\nthe fruit and cheese with<br \/>\nhoney glaze were cleared,<br \/>\nafter he gave her a ring with<br \/>\na rock as big as Jupiter,<br \/>\nshe buried her face in her hands.<br \/>\nShe said, \u201cI need space.\u201d He said:<br \/>\n\u201cYou want to be an astronaut?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next morning he popped up<br \/>\nat her work, deed in his hand to<br \/>\na split level house in the suburbs.<br \/>\nTwo thousand square feet<br \/>\nand that was the garage.<\/p>\n<p>She watched him waving<br \/>\nin her rearview as she pulled away<br \/>\nback seat bulging with her bags.<br \/>\nWiped from her cheek a single tear.<br \/>\nOn the surface he was all she\u2019d<br \/>\never want\u2014sexy, successful, sweet.<br \/>\nBut the universe was a tiny ball,<br \/>\nhidden in a thimble,<br \/>\nnext to the space inside his skull.<\/p>\n<h4>Prompt 19<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dinner at Chez\u00a0D\u00e9sespoir, when the wine, the brie, cherry gazpacho, the sole, the fruit and cheese with honey glaze were cleared, after he gave her a ring with a rock as big as Jupiter, she buried her face in her hands. She said, \u201cI&#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":[2228,2754,31,15,10,2663,687,2753,2752],"class_list":["post-41355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2017poetrymarathon","tag-cheese","tag-love","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-space","tag-universe","tag-wine","tag-wine-and-cheese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41355","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=41355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41429,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41355\/revisions\/41429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}