{"id":68714,"date":"2020-06-27T17:16:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68714"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:16:52","slug":"hour-9-firefly-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-9-firefly-in-a-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9: Firefly in a bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A firefly in a bottle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It tries it&#8217;s best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to fly and shine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in such a closed space<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It makes me think\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doesn&#8217;t it get tired<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seeing freedom through\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the fragile glass<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but unable to reach it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It makes me think\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It would be strange if<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the firefly isn&#8217;t sad or<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">angry or in despair<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And maybe it just puts on a mask<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of hope and effort<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A cheerful mask that hides<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">how tired it is<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It makes me think\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the view before\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a cottage window<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">barely visible through the treeline<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and an empty smile.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A firefly in a bottle It tries it&#8217;s best to fly and shine in such a closed space It makes me think\u2026 Doesn&#8217;t it get tired Seeing freedom through\u00a0 the fragile glass but unable to reach it It makes me think\u2026 It would be strange&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68714","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68739,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68714\/revisions\/68739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}