{"id":67304,"date":"2020-06-27T15:49:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67304"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:49:09","slug":"hour-7-season-of-the-flying-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-7-season-of-the-flying-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7, Season of the Flying Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two young boys were lifted high,<br \/>\ntwirled and swirled about in dizzying circles in the air,<br \/>\nstripped bare of all clothing,<br \/>\none later gently settled, unscathed, to the ground,<br \/>\nthe other never seen again.<\/p>\n<p>A single straw was driven<br \/>\nstraight through the heartwood<br \/>\nof a centuries old tree, unbent and unbroken.<\/p>\n<p>A brick home stood proud and untouched<br \/>\nbeside another razed down to a hole<br \/>\nin the ground, a bare ten feet between them.<\/p>\n<p>A school of fish was scooped whole<br \/>\nfrom the ocean, flown through the air to rain down,<br \/>\ngasping and alive, upon a town, inland and far from their home.<\/p>\n<p>The soil in this land&#8217;s richness sustains life all over the globe,<br \/>\nbut in a moment entangling air currents<br \/>\ncan swirl and twirl in a vortex, snatch, and indiscriminately kill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two young boys were lifted high, twirled and swirled about in dizzying circles in the air, stripped bare of all clothing, one later gently settled, unscathed, to the ground, the other never seen again. A single straw was driven straight through the heartwood of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67304","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67477,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67304\/revisions\/67477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}