{"id":65142,"date":"2020-06-27T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65142"},"modified":"2020-06-27T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:05:15","slug":"poetry-marathon-submission-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poetry-marathon-submission-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Marathon Submission #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Perseid's Shower\r\nSubmission #5\r\nAnn WJ White\r\n\r\nWe laid on our backs. Lake Itasca, the beginning of the Mississippi parkland.\r\nA family waiting for the dusk to transmogrify into night full of stars and silence.\r\nWaiting for meteors to travel at thirty-five seconds per mile above us. \r\n\r\nYou joked this was the first time you had laid in a gutter, on purpose, that the stars\r\nwould be hammered into place as the kids giggled. The in-between us settled watching for\r\nconstellations. The ranger beamed a flashlight and told sky tales,\r\n \r\npointed out stars from above. Glowing, she taught us curiosities, sent clear streaks\r\nof light back and forth, until we froze motionless; fire, red flaring rocks, burning,\r\nstreaking past our eyes in clusters of fifty or more, as barred owls called.\r\n\r\nThe cascade gathered Perseus's streak and tales of fame, dissolving into clouds of matter. \r\nThe Perseids, through black air from a comet Swift Tuttle, flaming along their gaseous tails,\r\nburning within our our atmosphere, never landing. A dance of freedom.\r\n\r\nOne hundred meteors an hour, two hours on the ground, warm air, soothing night breezes\r\nbreathing as small soft snores filled the air, fading into dreams. Hushful waking.\r\nWe silently gathered blankets, sleepy eyed children, and found our tent.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perseid&#8217;s Shower Submission #5 Ann WJ White We laid on our backs. Lake Itasca, the beginning of the Mississippi parkland. A family waiting for the dusk to transmogrify into night full of stars and silence. Waiting for meteors to travel at thirty-five seconds per mile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,1136,441,5,1135,1],"tags":[1231,3623,73,3620,556,3621,2035,3618,3622,1215,3617,3631,3619],"class_list":["post-65142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","category-testimonials","category-uncategorized","tag-children","tag-family-vacation","tag-fire","tag-flame","tag-god-of-fire","tag-greek-tales","tag-imagination","tag-perseids-meteor-storm","tag-perseus","tag-science","tag-summer-vacation","tag-swift-tuttle","tag-warm-clear-nights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65142","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\/1412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66061,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65142\/revisions\/66061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}