{"id":55949,"date":"2019-06-23T03:14:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55949"},"modified":"2019-06-23T03:14:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:14:43","slug":"a-little-while-after-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/a-little-while-after-before\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little While After Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been decided, we will create\u00a0<em>Earth.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How shall we proceed?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Start with a good sized Star, not too big.<\/p>\n<p>Bright and nourishing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, sir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The process was swift, a sprinkling of stardust.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed in the hands of the keepers of the Cosmo&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun was born.<\/p>\n<p>Creative liberty was taken as the process went along.<\/p>\n<p>Neighboring planets were crafted to keep <em>Earth\u00a0<\/em>humble, pique their curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sir, it&#8217;s time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The final step had to be performed by me and me alone.<\/p>\n<p>Water, for nourishment, land for living.<\/p>\n<p>A good distance from the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>And the last step, it&#8217;s inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>Hand me the box.<\/p>\n<p>I lightly dust the planet with chaos.<\/p>\n<p>And now we wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been decided, we will create\u00a0Earth.\u00a0 &#8220;How shall we proceed?&#8221; Start with a good sized Star, not too big. Bright and nourishing. &#8220;Yes, sir.&#8221; The process was swift, a sprinkling of stardust. Pressed in the hands of the keepers of the Cosmo&#8217;s. The Sun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55949","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\/1204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56011,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55949\/revisions\/56011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}