{"id":70413,"date":"2020-06-27T19:46:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70413"},"modified":"2020-06-28T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T13:00:01","slug":"hour-11-land-of-the-ice-and-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-11-land-of-the-ice-and-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 11, Land of the Ice and Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ancestors hailed from harshness and sought new lands far and wide<br \/>\nwith their wooden ships in which to spread their seed, for farms and for genetics.<\/p>\n<p>The land I long for is that of my origins,<br \/>\nknown only by legend.<br \/>\nIn that place, whales spout in ice choked bays and fjords,<br \/>\nice achieves a depth whose inner color rivals that of the piercing blue sky,<br \/>\nnorthern lights dance an impossible dream of pulsing colors<br \/>\nwithin a perpetual twilight,<br \/>\nhot springs of mineral laden water bathe bodies that ache with cold,<br \/>\nand a fire blazes within a great timbered lodge whose walls resound<br \/>\nwith the fire songs, the sea songs of old.<\/p>\n<p>I will see this place when my days have played themselves out to their end,<br \/>\na valiant life the earned passage to my seat among ancestral Norse ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ancestors hailed from harshness and sought new lands far and wide with their wooden ships in which to spread their seed, for farms and for genetics. The land I long for is that of my origins, known only by legend. In that place, whales&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70413","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76752,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70413\/revisions\/76752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}