{"id":6818,"date":"2015-06-13T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6818"},"modified":"2015-06-13T10:01:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:01:45","slug":"flat-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/flat-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Flat Fish <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">As I peer up at his boat, <em>Caliban<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">through the warming late spring waters of this<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">New Jersey back bay, I see his lucent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">line descend. His chartreuse jig bumps along<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">bottom mussel beds as he persuades me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">to lunch with him. The immortal current<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">slows as high tide approaches. He thinks I swim<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">in unfamiliar waters, but not so:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I have slipped along these bottom sands<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">through its cuts and channels for centuries,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">surviving Nor\u2019easters, water spouts,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">predators &#8212; and Shakespearean tempests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flat Fish As I peer up at his boat, Caliban, through the warming late spring waters of this New Jersey back bay, I see his lucent line descend. His chartreuse jig bumps along bottom mussel beds as he persuades me to lunch with him. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}