{"id":57200,"date":"2019-06-23T06:43:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57200"},"modified":"2019-06-23T06:58:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:58:45","slug":"2019-twenty-two-prompt-28-technology-in-the-context-of-nature-icarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/2019-twenty-two-prompt-28-technology-in-the-context-of-nature-icarus\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 &#8211; Twenty-Two &#8211; Prompt 28 &#8211; Technology in the Context of Nature &#8211; Icarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;ve been bold wings built strong of many things<br \/>\nfor many reasons meant beneath the sun.<br \/>\nBones of steel, and alum skins, and wooden<br \/>\nframes for silk. Tight canvas woven in mills.<br \/>\nWe have flown around this world on wings<br \/>\nbuilt strong and safe and we have often run<br \/>\nbefore the wind, before our time, and when<br \/>\nwe return to earth, modern are our skills.<\/p>\n<p>But nature doesn&#8217;t cause true steel, or bind<br \/>\naluminum to ribs of lathe. We learned<br \/>\nto fly from birds&#8217; technology and tales<br \/>\nof dreams enough so we don&#8217;t reach out blind.<\/p>\n<p>Wax and feathered wings and Icarus burned.<br \/>\nFirst flight was dreamed, and still so often fails.<\/p>\n<p>(Not my best, but I can re-work it later.\u00a0 A little over an hour to go. It&#8217;ll have to do.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;ve been bold wings built strong of many things for many reasons meant beneath the sun. Bones of steel, and alum skins, and wooden frames for silk. Tight canvas woven in mills. We have flown around this world on wings built strong and safe and&#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-57200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57200","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=57200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57287,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57200\/revisions\/57287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}