{"id":6671,"date":"2015-06-13T10:31:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2015-06-13T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:38:13","slug":"hour-1-life-in-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-1-life-in-the-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1 \u2014 Life in the Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a stone<br \/>\nA rock of unique contours<br \/>\nand striations<\/p>\n<p>Broken off the crag<br \/>\nThe cliff at the far end of the shore<br \/>\nOur old home<br \/>\nA few hundred we were then<br \/>\nHowever,\u00a0over the years, we have moved away<\/p>\n<p>Since our break<br \/>\nWe have travelled many miles<br \/>\nThese past few decades<br \/>\nFrom the coast to the basin<br \/>\nTo these sea waters, green and blue<\/p>\n<p>My purpose, I often think, is probably to provide<br \/>\nA surface for the gentle algae to grow<br \/>\nTo feed the fish<br \/>\nThe lovely tiny creatures<br \/>\nColorful and frolicsome they swim<br \/>\nTirelessly<\/p>\n<p>Our brothers, my fellow stones, we are gradually moving<br \/>\nTowards the great fall, they say<br \/>\nWhere another ocean waits for us<br \/>\nbelow these waters<br \/>\nThere, the fish are grim\u00a0and vicious<br \/>\nWe are told<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t worry\u00a0too much<br \/>\nBeing a stone<br \/>\n(of favourable mineral compositions, I might add)<br \/>\nI strive to serve<br \/>\nAnd serve happily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am a stone A rock of unique contours and striations Broken off the crag The cliff at the far end of the shore Our old home A few hundred we were then However,\u00a0over the years, we have moved away Since our break We&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671","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\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7234,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions\/7234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}