{"id":56044,"date":"2019-06-23T03:37:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56044"},"modified":"2019-06-23T03:37:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:37:55","slug":"prompt-20-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-20-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt 20: forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>forward<\/em><\/p>\n<p>moving<\/p>\n<p>one foot in front of the other<\/p>\n<p>to keep our heads above water<\/p>\n<p>when paths wash out<\/p>\n<p>in flash floods<\/p>\n<p>forcing us into kayaks<\/p>\n<p>when we thought running shoes would do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>having a compass<\/p>\n<p>astrolabe<\/p>\n<p>star chart<\/p>\n<p>is good practice<\/p>\n<p>even if their appearance makes no difference<\/p>\n<p>to the direction the wind blows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>intention is great:<\/p>\n<p>set the destination,<\/p>\n<p>leaving room for adventures<\/p>\n<p>off course<\/p>\n<p>where the Sirens call<\/p>\n<p>and beasties chase us into caves<\/p>\n<p>where our best selves await<\/p>\n<p>in gold-hinged treasure chests<\/p>\n<p>sometimes not guarded by dragons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(c) r.l.elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>forward moving one foot in front of the other to keep our heads above water when paths wash out in flash floods forcing us into kayaks when we thought running shoes would do. &nbsp; having a compass astrolabe star chart is good practice even if&#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-56044","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\/56044","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=56044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56157,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56044\/revisions\/56157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}