{"id":73266,"date":"2020-06-28T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73266"},"modified":"2020-06-28T01:14:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:14:12","slug":"prompt-15-hour-15-flying-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-15-hour-15-flying-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt 15 hour 15 &#8211; flying it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>prompt 15 hour 15 \u2013 air travel<\/p>\n<p>Flying it is<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was used to Greyhounds<\/p>\n<p>and the excitement of never knowing<\/p>\n<p>who would share the next seat for<\/p>\n<p>hours and hours of trips to places I was only half committed to go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Planes mean business \u2013<\/p>\n<p>there is no half-commitment to journey by air:<\/p>\n<p>you are there for good<\/p>\n<p>without wings,<\/p>\n<p>like Icarus after the fall<\/p>\n<p>(all broken wax and wasted feathers).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greyhounds can\u2019t cross oceans,<\/p>\n<p>even if they could swim that far<\/p>\n<p>without being eaten by sharks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Flying is safer than swimming \u2013<\/p>\n<p>all or nothing<\/p>\n<p>in the endeavour to get somewhere better than here\u2026<\/p>\n<p>wherever here is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greyhounds never made me feel adventurous,<\/p>\n<p>just resigned<\/p>\n<p>to everything I was running to\/from\/around.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Flying it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 r. l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>prompt 15 hour 15 \u2013 air travel Flying it is &nbsp; I was used to Greyhounds and the excitement of never knowing who would share the next seat for hours and hours of trips to places I was only half committed to go. &nbsp; Planes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73266","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73269,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73266\/revisions\/73269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}