{"id":68848,"date":"2020-06-27T17:28:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68848"},"modified":"2020-06-28T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T14:05:18","slug":"catching-fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/catching-fireflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Fireflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunting the Firefly<br \/>\nAs it darts out of my sight<br \/>\nIt\u2019s light flashing in the darkness<br \/>\nAnd illuminates the night<\/p>\n<p>My only tool my bottle,<br \/>\nIn which I hope to capture fire<br \/>\nA bizarre form of Prometheus<br \/>\nSeems to be to what I do aspire<\/p>\n<p>Why do I seek to hunt along the treeline<br \/>\nIn the summer evening heat<br \/>\nFor I quarry I just imprison<br \/>\nNot domesticate or eat<\/p>\n<p>What hubris do I seem to hold<br \/>\nTo put this insect in this prison<br \/>\nKnowing full well it will die far before<br \/>\nIt will see the sun arisen<\/p>\n<p>How strange that I feel the need<br \/>\nPerhaps this pastime too will pass<br \/>\nI hope I will release it, not<br \/>\nKeep it imprisoned behind glass<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I truly am just jealous<br \/>\nOf the light carried by the firefly<br \/>\nAnd seek to deprive it of its freedom<br \/>\nAnd watch it slowly die<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps I\u2019m just forgetful<br \/>\nOf the rights of other beasts<br \/>\nI pray I remember to release him<br \/>\nBefore the sun rises in the east<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunting the Firefly As it darts out of my sight It\u2019s light flashing in the darkness And illuminates the night My only tool my bottle, In which I hope to capture fire A bizarre form of Prometheus Seems to be to what I do aspire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1484,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68848","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\/1484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68856,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68848\/revisions\/68856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}