{"id":54624,"date":"2019-06-22T23:13:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54624"},"modified":"2019-06-22T23:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:13:06","slug":"life-in-a-hot-air-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/life-in-a-hot-air-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in a hot air balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does it take to hold<br \/>\nhot air, to carry the weight<br \/>\nof people and perhaps one dog?<br \/>\nCould I stitch together<br \/>\nsilken scarves (hundreds!) by hand<br \/>\nand still float away like<br \/>\ndandelion seed, round and<br \/>\npregnant question?<br \/>\nThere is a shortage of helium,<br \/>\nyou see, and these things must<br \/>\nbe learned. Would dental floss<br \/>\nbe a stronger thread; it\u2019s strong<br \/>\nenough for teeth if pulled<br \/>\ncorrectly. I would pull it<br \/>\ncorrectly. I would try.<br \/>\nI would fill bags with sand<br \/>\nto weight, heavy as nursing breasts,<br \/>\ncold as the bottle of Sprite<br \/>\nthat burst in the freezer forgotten.<br \/>\nMake of it what you will\u2014 there is<br \/>\nwork to be done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it take to hold hot air, to carry the weight of people and perhaps one dog? Could I stitch together silken scarves (hundreds!) by hand and still float away like dandelion seed, round and pregnant question? There is a shortage of helium, you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54624","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54665,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54624\/revisions\/54665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}