{"id":69759,"date":"2020-06-27T18:35:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69759"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:39:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:39:53","slug":"fireflier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/fireflier\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireflyer (Hour 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small hands dart quickly towards a vanishing yellow orb.<br \/>\nReaching for the flash of an undefined spot<br \/>\nin the playful dark of the settling, country night,<br \/>\nwhere the firefly was perceived alight<br \/>\nbut has already floated past, catching spark again,<br \/>\na few feet ahead of the child\u2019s searching eyes.<\/p>\n<p>His little face stretches,<br \/>\na strangely excited mask, in the new direction,<br \/>\na small bottle close by to keep captive insects under watch.<\/p>\n<p>As remnants of the day\u2019s heat recede into cooler shadows,<br \/>\na dance of light sparkles across the open pasture,<br \/>\nas if a carousel has dispersed itself, broken form<br \/>\nand flung its carnival majesty<br \/>\nto swim across the evening sky,<br \/>\ndrifting down the velvet hillsides<br \/>\nspilling into the moonless forest<br \/>\nwhere its strobing, discotheque ambiance<br \/>\nflickers throughout the darkening treeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small hands dart quickly towards a vanishing yellow orb. Reaching for the flash of an undefined spot in the playful dark of the settling, country night, where the firefly was perceived alight but has already floated past, catching spark again, a few feet ahead of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69759","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69832,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69759\/revisions\/69832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}