{"id":68734,"date":"2020-06-27T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68734"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:17:37","slug":"prompt-9-use-a-minimum-of-5-of-10-words-given","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-9-use-a-minimum-of-5-of-10-words-given\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #9: use a minimum of 5 of 10 words given"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u2018summer night\u2026perfection of thought\u2026\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0 with apologies to Wallace Stevens ~<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rain, the fireflies flicker.<\/p>\n<p>At the treeline, they hang in branches<\/p>\n<p>diamante on blue so dark it burns.<\/p>\n<p>Our house becomes a cottage<\/p>\n<p>in the dark, shrinks strangely<\/p>\n<p>in the summer heat, its recent build<\/p>\n<p>only a mask for four walls and a fence.<\/p>\n<p>A gentle lethargy falls on us \u2013 velvety,<\/p>\n<p>still. Cicadas sing, moths dart into light.<\/p>\n<p>The night descends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018summer night\u2026perfection of thought\u2026\u2019 \u00a0\u00a0 with apologies to Wallace Stevens ~ &nbsp; Despite the rain, the fireflies flicker. At the treeline, they hang in branches diamante on blue so dark it burns. Our house becomes a cottage in the dark, shrinks strangely in the summer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68734","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68747,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68734\/revisions\/68747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}