{"id":49600,"date":"2019-06-22T13:58:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49600"},"modified":"2019-06-22T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:36:02","slug":"hour-5-tome-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-5-tome-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5 &#8211; Tome of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are several of us<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">unruly children<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">climbing the stacks <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">toppling books onto the floor <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">constructing fortresses of fiction<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and using paperbacks as weaponry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nearby a librarian mutters in disdain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are other uses for those<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stalling out in fervent play<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a faint humming catches my ear <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">between thumb and forefinger<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and draws me near<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a worn leatherbound tome<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reels me in<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">crimson and burning<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it calls me by name<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I stretch a small hand to its binding<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">golden sparks jump through my arm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">onto the cover<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">revealing gilded symbols<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the room floods with light<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">its ancient wisdom unfurls<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and I begin to remember<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several of us unruly children climbing the stacks toppling books onto the floor constructing fortresses of fiction and using paperbacks as weaponry nearby a librarian mutters in disdain There are other uses for those &nbsp; Stalling out in fervent play a faint humming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49600","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\/1292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49619,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49600\/revisions\/49619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}