{"id":70412,"date":"2020-06-27T19:32:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70412"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:32:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:32:23","slug":"11-umbrian-gothic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/11-umbrian-gothic\/","title":{"rendered":"#11 Umbrian Gothic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I followed fireflies down<br \/>\nthe damp olive tree corridor<br \/>\nand into a cave where<br \/>\na wall opened at the back, in the recesses<br \/>\nof mystery, and<br \/>\ntorches flickered<br \/>\nand caught wind,<br \/>\nextinguishing in a flash.<\/p>\n<p>Stone grated behind me<br \/>\nwith an echo, the outside lost to me,<br \/>\nand he was there<br \/>\nwaiting for me.<\/p>\n<p>The bulbous-bodied<br \/>\ninsects lit a love<br \/>\nfor us, a path<br \/>\nthat had been carved<br \/>\nover many years. <\/p>\n<p>We roamed its magic, a pulse<br \/>\nof nature<br \/>\nthat showed us we already knew<br \/>\nhow the story would end. <\/p>\n<p>And we emerged under the Umbrian summer,<br \/>\nhand in hand, never the same<br \/>\nagain.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I followed fireflies down the damp olive tree corridor and into a cave where a wall opened at the back, in the recesses of mystery, and torches flickered and caught wind, extinguishing in a flash. Stone grated behind me with an echo, the outside lost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70412","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\/1489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71116,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70412\/revisions\/71116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}