{"id":42749,"date":"2017-08-06T08:11:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42749"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:13:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:13:31","slug":"poem-10-the-illuminations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/poem-10-the-illuminations\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 10 &#8211; The Illuminations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">wow what an orgy<br \/>\nof bright flashes and radiation<br \/>\nthe dashing and dancing<br \/>\nit\u2019ll leave you white<br \/>\nthe distraction<br \/>\nbecomes very obtrusive<br \/>\nthe swelling florescent<br \/>\ngreen it supplies<br \/>\nopens my reluctant eyes<br \/>\nwhile the curs-ed yellows<br \/>\nattack like wasps<br \/>\neager to burrow into my skin<br \/>\nthese lights switch and swirl<br \/>\nabusing the spectrum<br \/>\ndistorting the dark<br \/>\nand displaying the sharp<br \/>\na blue to deceive<br \/>\nthe shadow of warmth<br \/>\nbut a quick cut through<br \/>\nyou find alarm<br \/>\nit\u2019s the red back<br \/>\nsurrounded with the orange<br \/>\nand now I see the shape<br \/>\nof something less than<br \/>\nhonest<br \/>\nthese crowds of lights<br \/>\nI have paid to see<br \/>\nit has washed my brain<br \/>\nand lit up the abyss<br \/>\nbut what else<br \/>\nwould you find near the sea\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wow what an orgy of bright flashes and radiation the dashing and dancing it\u2019ll leave you white the distraction becomes very obtrusive the swelling florescent green it supplies opens my reluctant eyes while the curs-ed yellows attack like wasps eager to burrow into my skin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42749","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\/982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42914,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42749\/revisions\/42914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}