{"id":41873,"date":"2017-08-06T05:20:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41873"},"modified":"2017-08-06T05:20:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:20:36","slug":"ball-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/ball-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my voice is old,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to sing into a gorge,<br \/>\ninto the Marianas Trench.<br \/>\nI want my brow to grow heavy,<br \/>\nbearing peaches, to feel<br \/>\nthe weight of decades on<br \/>\nmy hips, to own a splintered<br \/>\nfractal of human history.<br \/>\nWhen my hair is white and<br \/>\nsilver, I&#8217;ll unleash the stars<br \/>\nof my braid, arthritic<br \/>\nopening to God. My hunched<br \/>\nspine will crack open, wrinkled<br \/>\nskin peeling away, bone<br \/>\npopping and curling until<br \/>\nthe husk of<br \/>\nWho I Thought I Was<br \/>\nfalls away, blows away, to<br \/>\nreveal the ball of light inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my voice is old, I&#8217;d like to sing into a gorge, into the Marianas Trench. I want my brow to grow heavy, bearing peaches, to feel the weight of decades on my hips, to own a splintered fractal of human history. When my hair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41873","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41898,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41873\/revisions\/41898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}