{"id":54360,"date":"2019-06-22T22:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54360"},"modified":"2019-06-22T22:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:22:31","slug":"middle-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/middle-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest open-air factory<br \/>\nThe cornfields that sent us to space<br \/>\nThe ethanol that is virtually useless<br \/>\nThe prairie grass that choked out the trees<br \/>\nThe vast grand stretches of nothing<br \/>\nThe towns that pepper the waste<br \/>\nThe green and the blue in the summer<br \/>\nThe grey in the winter and dawn<br \/>\nThe clouds that inch towards the earth<br \/>\nThe horizon precisely defined<br \/>\nThe vortex the Ancients called gods<br \/>\nThe storm cells and the splendor of rain<br \/>\nThe cities that mimic the mountains<br \/>\nThe drawl that unites all the tribes<br \/>\nThe dust stirred up during harvest<br \/>\nThe endless expanse of the sky<br \/>\nThe little green leaves of the soybeans<br \/>\nThe liquor that passes the time<br \/>\nThe old stone shops of downtown<br \/>\nThe farmhouses that sprout between crops<br \/>\nThe machines that keep it all running<br \/>\nThe floodlights that blot out the stars<br \/>\nThe fires that burn up the stalks<br \/>\nThe silos that sparkle with rust<br \/>\nThe flat that slowly creeps skyward<br \/>\nand grows to knee-high by July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest open-air factory The cornfields that sent us to space The ethanol that is virtually useless The prairie grass that choked out the trees The vast grand stretches of nothing The towns that pepper the waste The green and the blue in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54360","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\/1259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54362,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54360\/revisions\/54362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}