{"id":70501,"date":"2020-06-27T19:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70501"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:46:18","slug":"new-life-from-a-dead-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-life-from-a-dead-end\/","title":{"rendered":"New Life from a Dead End"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Spoilers for <em>Blue Sky<\/em>, right through to the end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Eaden is complicated, and scary<br \/>\nAnd she has a life here, and people<br \/>\nWho like her, and need her, and trust her<br \/>\nI want to be trusted. And needed. And liked.       <\/p>\n<p>Eaden is full of humans, and &#8220;Why not?&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd that ought to kill them, and would, There,<br \/>\nWhere She rules, and watches the Science<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t do Science, I just watched and ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Eaden&#8217;s my second chance town, or third<br \/>\nI think it&#8217;s my third now, and final<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s certain. She thinks I can do this.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know why, but she is certain. <\/p>\n<p>Eaden is home for us now. There&#8217;s an &#8220;us&#8221;.<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ve got a &#8220;home&#8221; now, that&#8217;s something<br \/>\nThat humans find normal. I&#8217;m normal.<br \/>\nOr at least, I&#8217;m getting there, and I&#8217;ve almost got it, I think, and anyway, Eaden people don&#8217;t seem to mind too much, or if they do they don&#8217;t give her a hard time about it and that&#8217;s just about perfect in my book, so on balance I have to say that things are, genuinely, looking pretty good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoilers for Blue Sky, right through to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[2461,3728],"class_list":["post-70501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-hour11","tag-blue-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70501","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70557,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70501\/revisions\/70557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}