{"id":68147,"date":"2020-06-27T16:41:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68147"},"modified":"2020-07-15T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:05:34","slug":"alien-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/alien-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An atmosphere sapphire blue<br \/>\nheavy and opaque.<br \/>\nTerrain irregular<br \/>\ncliffs, canyons, deserts<br \/>\nrocky outcrops<br \/>\nvegetated fields.<br \/>\nSome of the stones<br \/>\ngrow and live and eat<br \/>\nbut oh!<br \/>\nThose alien creatures!<br \/>\nSmall, delicate wings in many sets<br \/>\npropel them easily<br \/>\nthrough dense skies,<br \/>\ndrifting and darting<br \/>\nin massive clouds.<br \/>\nOther tread the shifting ground<br \/>\ncrawling on many legs<br \/>\nclimbing and leaping<br \/>\nmorphing chameleon textures.<br \/>\nand the colors!<br \/>\nNeon pinks, oranges, blues, yellows<br \/>\nmixed stripes and spots<br \/>\nsome entirely transparent<br \/>\nother glow with technicolor life<br \/>\nilluminating the darkest caves.<br \/>\nThey are spectacularly varied<br \/>\nfringes and spines,<br \/>\narmor and tendrils,<br \/>\nsolid and immobile,<br \/>\nfloating away like feather-light balloons<br \/>\nthe size of buildings<br \/>\nor barely a few cells<br \/>\nno two precisely alike.<br \/>\nIt is a cruel world<br \/>\nwith as much death as there is life<br \/>\nfull of poison and tearing jaws<br \/>\nrending flesh and organ and bone.<br \/>\nThe creatures hunt<br \/>\npursue, ambush, and flee.<br \/>\nBut it can also be kind<br \/>\nanimals dwelling symbiotically<br \/>\nso many forms and shades and scales<br \/>\nall intertwined.<br \/>\nSuch a beautiful world<br \/>\nhumanity has only reached the surface<br \/>\nof our own alien oceans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An atmosphere sapphire blue heavy and opaque. Terrain irregular cliffs, canyons, deserts rocky outcrops vegetated fields. Some of the stones grow and live and eat but oh! Those alien creatures! Small, delicate wings in many sets propel them easily through dense skies, drifting and darting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78640,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147\/revisions\/78640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}