{"id":48504,"date":"2019-06-22T12:20:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48504"},"modified":"2019-06-22T19:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:25:20","slug":"hour-4-prompt-5-cycle-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-4-prompt-5-cycle-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4, Prompt 5: Cycle of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48522\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/muneeb-syed-1509331-unsplash-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/muneeb-syed-1509331-unsplash-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/muneeb-syed-1509331-unsplash-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sweet nectar breathes life into a dark, dreary day<br \/>\nAs the moth reflects on his changes<br \/>\nFrom a small caterpillar, crawling high on the orange tree branches<br \/>\nTo the moth now sucking the orange juices to subsist<br \/>\nA dichotomy exists; the cycle of life<br \/>\nFrom caterpillar to cocoon<br \/>\nFrom seed to sprouted fruit<br \/>\nBoth the orange and the moth have their purposes made clear<br \/>\nAs one life continues, so too one must end<br \/>\nThe orange, unknowing, the moth be its doom<br \/>\nThe moth, now knowing the orange be its lifeline<br \/>\nAnd yet, they need one another in a narcissistic way<br \/>\nFor one&#8217;s survival and one&#8217;s immortality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sweet nectar breathes life into a dark, dreary day As the moth reflects on his changes From a small caterpillar, crawling high on the orange tree branches To the moth now sucking the orange juices to subsist A dichotomy exists; the cycle of life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48504","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\/1313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48596,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48504\/revisions\/48596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}