{"id":57392,"date":"2019-06-22T20:47:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57392"},"modified":"2019-06-23T07:32:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:32:38","slug":"prologue-hour-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prologue-hour-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Prologue &#8211; Hour 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57497\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57497 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Erasure-finished-2.47-2-233x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Erasure-finished-2.47-2-233x300.png 233w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Erasure-finished-2.47-2.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Erasure taken on Prologue of &#8220;Fire And Ice, Season I, Warrior Cats &#8211; by Erin Hunter&#8221;, e-book version from 2009<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Orange flowers throw sparks in the night<br \/>\nMaking silhouettes of Twolegs huddled there.<br \/>\nWhite lights appear, roar past<br \/>\nOn a Thunderpath,<\/p>\n<p>At the edge, a cat moved,<br \/>\nMore cats followed one by one,<br \/>\nsniffed the bitter air<br \/>\nWith the lips curled.<\/p>\n<p>A large tom padded forward<br \/>\nflames lit up black-and-white fur\u00a0 on his powerful shoulders.<br \/>\nHis long tail straight up<br \/>\nSending a message of courage to his Clan.<\/p>\n<p>This was a strange place.<\/p>\n<p>A gray queen flickered her tail uneasily.<br \/>\nShe pulled her kids towards her and sheltered it<br \/>\nA black tompushed his way forward, limping heavily on a twisted paw<br \/>\nAnxious yowls rose from some of the cats<\/p>\n<p>The cry alerted the Twoloegs around the fire.<\/p>\n<p>At once the cats fell silent, crouching lower<br \/>\nA missile flew over their heads<br \/>\nExploded in a burst of thorn-sharp pieces<br \/>\nOn the Thunderpath behind.<\/p>\n<p>Ashfoot flinshed as a shard grazed her shoulder<br \/>\nbut stayed silent, curling her body<br \/>\naround her terrified kit.<br \/>\nI fear for our safety here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange flowers throw sparks in the night Making silhouettes of Twolegs huddled there. White lights appear, roar past On a Thunderpath, At the edge, a cat moved, More cats followed one by one, sniffed the bitter air With the lips curled. A large tom padded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57392","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\/1223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57515,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57392\/revisions\/57515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}