{"id":53502,"date":"2019-06-22T20:41:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53502"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:41:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:41:43","slug":"erasure-the-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/erasure-the-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasure- The Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-53551\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erasures-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erasures-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erasures.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The nature of hills<\/p>\n<p>Burned up chrome<\/p>\n<p>Aspiring to the high plains<\/p>\n<p>Sun glare drowned in the surface<\/p>\n<p>And black flows after rains.<\/p>\n<p>In the small valleys<\/p>\n<p>Evaporating levels of dry lakes are<\/p>\n<p>Steep, heavy, dark and bitter with the deposits<\/p>\n<p>A thin crust lies over the area<\/p>\n<p>The wastes to the sand shows the sculpture<\/p>\n<p>More storms scar them<\/p>\n<p>And the desert edges are famed at last.<\/p>\n<p>A hill expects to depend upon<\/p>\n<p>For they are slow<\/p>\n<p>Here the hot death rolling where always<\/p>\n<p>A heavy dust<\/p>\n<p>Whirling into the earth or called for violence<\/p>\n<p>Lost in love, yet visited inevitably<\/p>\n<p>If not so little of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From: The Land With Little Rain by Mary Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The nature of hills Burned up chrome Aspiring to the high plains Sun glare drowned in the surface And black flows after rains. In the small valleys Evaporating levels of dry lakes are Steep, heavy, dark and bitter with the deposits A thin crust&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53502","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53567,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53502\/revisions\/53567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}