{"id":65769,"date":"2020-06-27T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65769"},"modified":"2020-06-29T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:24:11","slug":"the-tale-of-convergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-tale-of-convergence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Convergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tale of Convergence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Very special day.<\/p>\n<p>Huge, huge crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Assembled to propitiate<\/p>\n<p>the alien God of Greed.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of bare-faced<\/p>\n<p>admirers braved the heat,<\/p>\n<p>hoping to glimpse their<\/p>\n<p>bloviating orange savior.<\/p>\n<p>Festive throngs boarded<\/p>\n<p>the silver spaceship, feeling<\/p>\n<p>anticipation of the unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Anything could happen,<\/p>\n<p>fun, excitement, salvation.<\/p>\n<p>A giant camp meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tulsa, a Hellmouth city,<\/p>\n<p>long awaited this day.<\/p>\n<p>Ground beneath opened,<\/p>\n<p>spit fire into the downtown sky<\/p>\n<p>like Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p>The swirling spaceship<\/p>\n<p>disappeared into the<\/p>\n<p>bowels of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later, the City Council<\/p>\n<p>voted to seal, pave the site.<\/p>\n<p>Now a parking lot<\/p>\n<p>and home of the<\/p>\n<p>Terence Crutcher<\/p>\n<p>Free Housing Center<\/p>\n<p>for those in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tale of Convergence &nbsp; Very special day. Huge, huge crowds. Assembled to propitiate the alien God of Greed. Thousands of bare-faced admirers braved the heat, hoping to glimpse their bloviating orange savior. Festive throngs boarded the silver spaceship, feeling anticipation of the unknown. Anything&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65769","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65779,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65769\/revisions\/65779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}