{"id":47336,"date":"2019-06-22T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47336"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:39:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:39:37","slug":"modern-magicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/modern-magicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Magicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>she does not wear a pointy hat<br \/>\nor traverse the sky on broomstick.<\/p>\n<p>he doesn&#8217;t have a long white beard<br \/>\nor brandish a mystic wand.<\/p>\n<p>they mix their potions<br \/>\nbubble, steam, and fizz<br \/>\ncarefully adjusting each spell<br \/>\na little too green, a little too thick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>she wears her hair in a ponytail<br \/>\nand drives to work in a blue Ford.<\/p>\n<p>he has a dark forest of stubble<br \/>\nand three boxes of his favorite pencils<\/p>\n<p>they wear long robes of white<br \/>\nand translucent plastic masks.<br \/>\nshe knows a couple card tricks.<br \/>\nhe has a black cat named Whiskers.<\/p>\n<p>the magic that they practice,<br \/>\nstudy, and perform<br \/>\nwould surely shock the ancient peoples<br \/>\nwho lived in fear of knowledge<\/p>\n<p>what once was evil now is good<br \/>\nas Magic is renamed Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>she does not wear a pointy hat or traverse the sky on broomstick. he doesn&#8217;t have a long white beard or brandish a mystic wand. they mix their potions bubble, steam, and fizz carefully adjusting each spell a little too green, a little too thick&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47336","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47408,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47336\/revisions\/47408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}