{"id":72542,"date":"2020-06-27T23:12:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72542"},"modified":"2020-06-27T23:12:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:12:57","slug":"checked-baggage-hour-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/checked-baggage-hour-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Checked Baggage (Hour 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People watching, ticket check,<br \/>\nboarding pass print, panic, time efficiency<br \/>\nShuffle past multitudes of lives, interplaying,<br \/>\nhappening to occupy the same space for mere instances,<br \/>\nrushing to catch various flights,<br \/>\nmechanisms soaring across the globe in days, hours.<\/p>\n<p>People who would never have likely met, see each other, for a moment, a glance.<br \/>\nThe power of flight, of world travel, too busy for minds to connect.<\/p>\n<p>Marked with rows and files,<br \/>\nsegmented stomachs of the flying worm,<br \/>\nSeats next to the aisle, seats next to the window<br \/>\nFood, entertainment, alcohol,<br \/>\nsatisfied to surrender motion,<br \/>\nabsorb the air, ride the flight.<\/p>\n<p>People up to their asses in people<br \/>\nUp to your elbows in people,<br \/>\nBreathing people, breathing other people breathing.<br \/>\nFlying in my seat across the sky,<br \/>\nWe sever clouds<br \/>\nAnd soar over mountaintops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People watching, ticket check, boarding pass print, panic, time efficiency Shuffle past multitudes of lives, interplaying, happening to occupy the same space for mere instances, rushing to catch various flights, mechanisms soaring across the globe in days, hours. People who would never have likely met,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72542","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72554,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72542\/revisions\/72554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}