{"id":7006,"date":"2015-06-13T10:06:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2015-06-13T10:06:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:06:29","slug":"hour-two-the-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-two-the-drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Two:  The Drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always imagined it to be<br \/>\nlike walking on water, all the way<br \/>\nto Spain. Or Nova Scotia.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve never been to Halifax.<br \/>\nThere might be shipwrecks there<br \/>\nfrom that exploded boat<br \/>\nand I\u2019ll be the one to find<br \/>\nthe missing brooch,<br \/>\na letter written in washable blue,<br \/>\nmy favorite ink, when dry.<br \/>\nWhen wet it cannot be relied upon<br \/>\nto deliver the message as to why I went,<br \/>\nlike Spaulding Gray, into the drink.<br \/>\nWhat is left to say?<br \/>\nNo stones in my pockets, I rely on<br \/>\nthe force of history to pull me down.<br \/>\nAs to the reason, be it self-inflicted<br \/>\nor that killer who stalks for years<br \/>\nand finally strikes, holding me under<br \/>\nuntil I gurgle, like a full water bucket \u2013<br \/>\nit doesn\u2019t matter. Nothing matters<br \/>\nexcept these fish around me, friendly.<br \/>\nSee how they flash in the water:<br \/>\none last rainbow, rainbow, rainbow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always imagined it to be like walking on water, all the way to Spain. Or Nova Scotia. I\u2019ve never been to Halifax. There might be shipwrecks there from that exploded boat and I\u2019ll be the one to find the missing brooch, a letter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}