{"id":70164,"date":"2020-06-27T19:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70164"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:22:06","slug":"moai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/moai\/","title":{"rendered":"Moai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I saw the photos<br \/>\nof those giant heads made out of stone<br \/>\nI have dreamed of the island<\/p>\n<p>The most remote land mass in the world<br \/>\nfloating somewhere halfway<br \/>\nbetween Chile and Tahiti<\/p>\n<p>A mystery still<br \/>\nhow those huge rocks moved<br \/>\nwhy they are facing away from the ocean<br \/>\na culture barely understood<br \/>\nof birdmen cults<br \/>\nlong ears<br \/>\nshort ears<br \/>\na tiny dot on a map<br \/>\ndevoid of trees<br \/>\nstranded in the vast Pacific<br \/>\nwith just a bunch of statues<\/p>\n<p>and a couple of rongo rongo tablets<br \/>\nthat no one can decipher.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when a people gets locked<br \/>\nin their past<br \/>\ntheir history long forgotten<br \/>\nbut so public in its permanence?<\/p>\n<p>Do their voices get carried in the wind<br \/>\nlong lost by the gales of the sea?<\/p>\n<p>Are their secrets whispered amongst the underwater sea creatures?<br \/>\nLike mermaids who never existed<br \/>\noutside of human dreams?<\/p>\n<p>No one will know<br \/>\nonly the statues<br \/>\nwith no mouths to sing their stories<br \/>\nand no eyes to cry for their lost past<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I saw the photos of those giant heads made out of stone I have dreamed of the island The most remote land mass in the world floating somewhere halfway between Chile and Tahiti A mystery still how those huge rocks moved why they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70164","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\/70164","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\/1439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70296,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70164\/revisions\/70296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}