{"id":54696,"date":"2019-06-22T23:20:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54696"},"modified":"2019-06-22T23:20:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:20:33","slug":"2019-fifteen-from-prompt-18-hour-15-the-beginning-in-principio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/2019-fifteen-from-prompt-18-hour-15-the-beginning-in-principio\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 &#8211; Fifteen &#8211; From Prompt 18, Hour 15, The Beginning &#8211; In Principio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cultures from the Amazon to the Nile,<br \/>\nhave dreamed of gods to bring them to their lives,<br \/>\nthe better to explain life, and to while<br \/>\naway night hours with mighty tales of wives<br \/>\nand children, husbands living just like them,<br \/>\njust out of sight. Whose stories are the same<br \/>\nbut grand in ways to demonstrate mayhem<br \/>\nbeyond their comprehension, without shame.<\/p>\n<p>But if they really knew the depths of space<br \/>\nand how long it has come, how far to go,<br \/>\nwould they ignore their gods, let reason come?<br \/>\nOr would they shout, &#8220;The bang began the race!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For me, my seat to see the Kick Off Show,<br \/>\nwould be amongst the gods, to question some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultures from the Amazon to the Nile, have dreamed of gods to bring them to their lives, the better to explain life, and to while away night hours with mighty tales of wives and children, husbands living just like them, just out of sight. Whose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54696","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\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54707,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54696\/revisions\/54707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}