{"id":55866,"date":"2019-06-23T02:49:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55866"},"modified":"2019-06-23T04:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:58:40","slug":"prompt-20-pools-of-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-20-pools-of-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt 21: pools of colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/donna-lay-1564935-unsplash.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>pools of colour<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>these rainy streets feel like Christmas<\/p>\n<p>when streets are dressed in light<\/p>\n<p>like whores on their days off<\/p>\n<p>waiting for a new date:<\/p>\n<p>all flash<\/p>\n<p>no fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>these night bus rides make me sad:<\/p>\n<p>the farther I get from you<\/p>\n<p>the colder it gets<\/p>\n<p>but I can&#8217;t see the street for rain on the windshield<\/p>\n<p>and the driver cares less than I do<\/p>\n<p>to see the mess the rain makes of the road<\/p>\n<p>or anything else around us<\/p>\n<p>while the world melts<\/p>\n<p>into pools of coloured light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(c) r.l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; pools of colour &nbsp; these rainy streets feel like Christmas when streets are dressed in light like whores on their days off waiting for a new date: all flash no fantasy. &nbsp; these night bus rides make me sad: the farther I get from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55866","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56592,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55866\/revisions\/56592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}