{"id":47420,"date":"2019-06-22T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47420"},"modified":"2019-06-22T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:50:19","slug":"revelation-from-a-death-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/revelation-from-a-death-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Revelation from a Death Bed  (prompt 1 hour 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is hard, the teacher said,<br \/>\nwide eyes glistening with the effort of speech,<br \/>\nGrasping each word<br \/>\nLike pitons just out of reach<\/p>\n<p>As I listened to his final thoughts,<br \/>\nsweeping images danced in my head<br \/>\na song of hope from the place of the dead<\/p>\n<p>I am the eagle, soaring free<br \/>\nI am the forest and I am each tree.<\/p>\n<p>I am the ocean, I am the rain.<br \/>\nEach drop of water, each tear of pain.<\/p>\n<p>I am breath, the giver of life<br \/>\nI carry creation inside of me.<\/p>\n<p>I am the albatross flying free<br \/>\nI am the universe, I am song<\/p>\n<p>My spirit&#8217;s invincible. To me all belongs.<\/p>\n<p><em>(incomplete, sorry.\u00a0 Finish later and fix the rhythm)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is hard, the teacher said, wide eyes glistening with the effort of speech, Grasping each word Like pitons just out of reach As I listened to his final thoughts, sweeping images danced in my head a song of hope from the place of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[47,2805],"class_list":["post-47420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour-1","tag-i-am"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47420","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\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51314,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47420\/revisions\/51314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}