{"id":57393,"date":"2019-06-23T08:03:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57393"},"modified":"2019-07-13T11:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:39:45","slug":"prompt-29-matchbox-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-29-matchbox-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 29, Hour 24: Five Steps To My MatchBox Town."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 29, Hour 24: Four Steps To My MatchBox Village.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57659\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4e9e471a787060d4522600ec6eddf38f-electronic-toys-matchbox-cars-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4e9e471a787060d4522600ec6eddf38f-electronic-toys-matchbox-cars-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4e9e471a787060d4522600ec6eddf38f-electronic-toys-matchbox-cars.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First step:<\/p>\n<p>Have teenage brothers purchase cars.<\/p>\n<p>Have all go out and play.<\/p>\n<p>Each matchbox car is magical.<\/p>\n<p>So let it seems that way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Second step:<\/p>\n<p>Be as young as six years old;<\/p>\n<p>Think cities made of mud.<\/p>\n<p>Let childhood genius take its hold;<\/p>\n<p>Recede Snake River&#8217;s flood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Third step::<\/p>\n<p>Skirt around wet fields of grain\u2014<\/p>\n<p>A boon from irrigation.<\/p>\n<p>Small city streets\u2014 checkered terrain,<\/p>\n<p>Form by imagination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fourth step:<\/p>\n<p>Form Adam&#8217;s houses out of wet clay\u2014<\/p>\n<p>schools, businesses,\u00a0 and churches.<\/p>\n<p>Wait for the sun to bake them dry;<\/p>\n<p>daydreams on flowing ditches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fifth Step:<\/p>\n<p>Time travel back to innocence.<\/p>\n<p>Bring along your children.<\/p>\n<p>Find they&#8217;ll\u00a0 travel other ways;<\/p>\n<p>Their own worlds to pilgrim.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 29, Hour 24: Four Steps To My MatchBox Village. First step: Have teenage brothers purchase cars. Have all go out and play. Each matchbox car is magical. So let it seems that way. &nbsp; Second step: Be as young as six years old; Think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57393","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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59482,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57393\/revisions\/59482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}