{"id":67923,"date":"2020-06-27T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67923"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:29:30","slug":"2020-poetry-marathon-hour-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/2020-poetry-marathon-hour-8\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Poetry Marathon, Hour 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompt-8-hour-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emoji<\/a> aren\u2019t my thing, so I went to the random prompt generator for this one from 2016: Write a poem of praise. It can be praising a person, a place, or a thing\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Time for a refreshing dip<br \/>\nin the pool<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The rings of Saturn splash<br \/>\ndust across the galaxy<br \/>\nperhaps to send a message<br \/>\nmaybe to explore<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Who knows where it will settle<br \/>\nor if anyone\u2019s been there before?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The miracle play is months away<br \/>\nthe moon will have waned by then<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Quiet souls will continue<br \/>\nto search the night time sky<br \/>\nhoping to see Saturn again<\/p>\n<p>(27 June 2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emoji aren\u2019t my thing, so I went to the random prompt generator for this one from 2016: Write a poem of praise. It can be praising a person, a place, or a thing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3453,1173,154,1163],"class_list":["post-67923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2020-poetry-marathon","tag-half-marathon","tag-hour-8","tag-kevin-j-oconner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67923","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\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68105,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67923\/revisions\/68105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}