{"id":54975,"date":"2019-06-23T00:09:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54975"},"modified":"2019-06-23T00:09:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:09:59","slug":"city-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/city-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"City Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stars fade into streetlamps as we head home,<br \/>\nEach with a particular nimbus of light.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t get the same quality of night sky<br \/>\nOut in the city with its pollution.<br \/>\nOnly a few stars are brave enough<br \/>\nTo shine on through the smog and neon glare &#8211;<br \/>\nOrion with his sword and belt,<br \/>\nThe Great Dipper scooping water,<br \/>\nAnd every so often a North Star pointing home.<\/p>\n<p>What you lose in stars you gain in people,<br \/>\nThe average human crust and grind.<br \/>\nAs long as the stars are still out there,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure I mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars fade into streetlamps as we head home, Each with a particular nimbus of light. You can&#8217;t get the same quality of night sky Out in the city with its pollution. Only a few stars are brave enough To shine on through the smog and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54975","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\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54984,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54975\/revisions\/54984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}