{"id":49521,"date":"2019-06-22T13:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49521"},"modified":"2019-06-23T20:50:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:50:57","slug":"a-dream-on-the-ocean-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/a-dream-on-the-ocean-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dream on the Ocean Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We drove the car into the ocean<br \/>\nand drowned in the Gulf.<br \/>\nOur metal box sinks into<br \/>\nthe trench of the unknown.<br \/>\nWe land and settle on the seabed<br \/>\nlike our very own Apollo 11.<br \/>\nThe ocean floor resembles our dear moon.<br \/>\nHow does life here endure?<\/p>\n<p>The headlight high-beams upon<br \/>\nthe faces of creatures who\u2019ve never seen such bright.<br \/>\nThey emerge from the black ocean floor<br \/>\nand swim towards the hope of a sunkissed surface<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t make it far<br \/>\nand are overtaken by pressure differences.<br \/>\nLittle beings sacrificing home and safety to see<br \/>\na beauty once unfathomable, again.<\/p>\n<p>Once you know,<br \/>\nyou spend the rest of your life searching.<\/p>\n<p>The water takes over me.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve seen it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drove the car into the ocean and drowned in the Gulf. Our metal box sinks into the trench of the unknown. We land and settle on the seabed like our very own Apollo 11. The ocean floor resembles our dear moon. How does life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49521","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58281,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49521\/revisions\/58281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}