{"id":48652,"date":"2019-06-22T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48652"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:23:42","slug":"perspective-on-obstacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/perspective-on-obstacles\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective on Obstacles   (prompt 5, Hour 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48694\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stretched-picture.jpb_-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"87\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stretched-picture.jpb_-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stretched-picture.jpb_-768x982.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stretched-picture.jpb_-801x1024.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 87px) 100vw, 87px\" \/> \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48740\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stretched-picture.jpb_-1-300x30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stretched-picture.jpb_-1-300x30.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stretched-picture.jpb_-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dark rocky cliffs rise abruptly up<br \/>\nto block a starry night sky.<br \/>\nThey feel immense seen from the base.<br \/>\nA tall waterfall heaves violently<br \/>\nover the edge in the high distance.<br \/>\nThere is no path forward.<\/p>\n<p>In a perfect world I could take my cursor<br \/>\nand stretch the image out far to the right.<br \/>\nSuddenly the ground would smooth before me.<br \/>\nScree become a gentle valley<br \/>\nwhere children lie sleeping in safe beds.<br \/>\nThe cliffs recede to low, rounded swells,<br \/>\nand the waterfall is a distant river<br \/>\nwaiting to be crossed.<\/p>\n<p>In Indra\u2019s net there is no reality,<br \/>\nonly a point of view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Dark rocky cliffs rise abruptly up to block a starry night sky. They feel immense seen from the base. A tall waterfall heaves violently over the edge in the high distance. There is no path forward. In a perfect world I could take my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[60,2895,2896],"class_list":["post-48652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour-4","tag-indras-net","tag-waterfall","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48652","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=48652"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49260,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48652\/revisions\/49260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}