{"id":68787,"date":"2020-06-27T17:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68787"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:47:59","slug":"hour-9-fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-9-fireflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9:  Fireflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each morning in Thomasville, the air smelled of varnish from the furniture factory<br \/>\nSun like I&#8217;d never seen woke me, warming the air, begging me to go outside<br \/>\nThe <strong>heat<\/strong> meant I could smell every tree, every blade of grass<br \/>\nAt night the air rang with the chirping of crickets, like a Hollywood film, I thought<br \/>\nAnd then out came the <strong>fireflies,<\/strong> sparking in <strong>strange<\/strong> yellow-green<br \/>\nStalking from the screened porch,\u00a0 with its faded green paint<br \/>\nWe ran to the <strong>treeline<\/strong> to <strong>bottle<\/strong> them &#8211; easy to do, it turned out<br \/>\nBut they couldn&#8217;t stay in the jar for long &#8211; they&#8217;d lose their glow<br \/>\nAt night, back in my bed, I&#8217;d watch them bumble past my window<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each morning in Thomasville, the air smelled of varnish from the furniture factory Sun like I&#8217;d never seen woke me, warming the air, begging me to go outside The heat meant I could smell every tree, every blade of grass At night the air rang&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68787","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\/1179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69115,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68787\/revisions\/69115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}