{"id":68874,"date":"2020-06-27T19:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68874"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:49:44","slug":"11-the-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/11-the-vessel\/","title":{"rendered":"#10 The Vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alone at sea,<\/p>\n<p>Not even a star in the sky<\/p>\n<p>Floating without direction,<\/p>\n<p>Just the waves to abide by.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everything is dark,<\/p>\n<p>Even the compass is broken,<\/p>\n<p>The lonely vessel bobs about,<\/p>\n<p>Empty, abandoned, forsaken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it had a glorious past,<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it belonged to royalty,<\/p>\n<p>Or it was a pirate ship,<\/p>\n<p>Striking terror with its notoriety.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But nobody knows for sure,<\/p>\n<p>The vessel\u2019s a long-forgotten story,<\/p>\n<p>It is no longer worthy of memory,<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t deserve a place in history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alone at sea,<\/p>\n<p>Not even a star in the sky,<\/p>\n<p>One day it will sink to the bottom,<\/p>\n<p>And no one will care that it died.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alone at sea, Not even a star in the sky Floating without direction, Just the waves to abide by. &nbsp; Everything is dark, Even the compass is broken, The lonely vessel bobs about, Empty, abandoned, forsaken. &nbsp; Maybe it had a glorious past, Maybe it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68874","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\/1442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70285,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68874\/revisions\/70285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}