{"id":68635,"date":"2020-06-27T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68635"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:55:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:55:16","slug":"poem-marathon-9th-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-marathon-9th-submission\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem Marathon 9th Submission"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>A Mysterious Party\r\nAnn WJ White\r\n\r\nThe country cottage,\r\nsurrounded by evening light,\r\nis host to the many fireflies,\r\nnightbirds and shadowed creatures. \r\n\r\nThe building wears a \r\nmask of civility under the \r\nlanguid heat of summer night.\r\nStrange voices project from the treeline.\r\n\r\nStars hold the brightness \r\nnear lamps down low, seeking\r\nthe dancing of the moon and her friends.\r\nThey share a strange bottle of time.\r\n\r\nFor years, those who wore the mask\r\nof mysterious circumstances\r\ncame under the stars\r\nto show their longing. \r\n\r\nInsects sang with their viols, \r\nwhile they zoomed flirting,\r\ntelling fables of treasures\r\nenchanted world long ago.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mysterious Party Ann WJ White The country cottage, surrounded by evening light, is host to the many fireflies, nightbirds and shadowed creatures. The building wears a mask of civility under the languid heat of summer night. Strange voices project from the treeline. Stars hold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,441,5,1],"tags":[2026,3729,3730],"class_list":["post-68635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","category-uncategorized","tag-fable","tag-tale","tag-word-restricted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68635","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\/1412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68635"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69203,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68635\/revisions\/69203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}