{"id":41799,"date":"2017-08-06T05:07:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41799"},"modified":"2017-08-06T05:07:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:07:38","slug":"hour-fifteen-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-fifteen-7\/","title":{"rendered":"hour fifteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the first rainbow lit the sky,<br \/>\nthe colour were so vibrant,<br \/>\nstrong and<br \/>\nthe sound they made in the wind was reverberating into people&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>When the first rainbow lit the sky,<br \/>\nthe people heard the promise and they saw<br \/>\nthe colours together lighting up the daylight hours<br \/>\nand quietly in their hearts they took fright,<br \/>\nthey started to whisper<\/p>\n<p>have you see the colours in the sky<br \/>\nthe bow accross the blue sky<br \/>\nremember all the rain we had before,<br \/>\nthe rain that destroyed some of our homes,<br \/>\nsome of our gardens<br \/>\npulled up trees<br \/>\nand now<\/p>\n<p>when the first rainbow lit the sky<br \/>\npeople listened but only heard what they wanted,<br \/>\nunderstood what they had seen,<br \/>\nknew that in the coming winter,<br \/>\nfood would be scarces and now<br \/>\nthis scary bunch of colours was lighting the sky.<\/p>\n<p>While the first rainbow was still high in the sky,<br \/>\nthe first stones were erected,<br \/>\nand new gods were invented,<br \/>\nnew prayers were composed.<br \/>\nfor the coming winter<br \/>\nwhen empty bellies would need the consolation of some form of almighty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and here i sit on my throne<br \/>\nhave spoken to my people,<br \/>\nhave traced a bow of colour in the sky,<br \/>\nas an agreement to our friendship,<br \/>\ntrust and closeness,<br \/>\nand i see them<br \/>\nhave i overdone it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the first rainbow lit the sky, the colour were so vibrant, strong and the sound they made in the wind was reverberating into people&#8217;s life. When the first rainbow lit the sky, the people heard the promise and they saw the colours together lighting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41799","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\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41806,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41799\/revisions\/41806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}