{"id":74196,"date":"2020-06-28T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74196"},"modified":"2020-06-29T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T19:24:23","slug":"the-history-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-history-of-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt 17 (Half Marathon 2 Hour 5)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I write this poem in a Google Doc<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts turn to Mesopotamia<\/p>\n<p>To scribes meticulously carving each letter on stone<\/p>\n<p>Laying the foundation of centuries of literature<\/p>\n<p>So far, I have used backspace at least five times<\/p>\n<p>But for them, there was no scope for error<\/p>\n<p>I move forward in time to ten years before now<\/p>\n<p>A young girl opening a diary on New Year\u2019s eve<\/p>\n<p>Penning her thoughts on the page dated 1 Jan<\/p>\n<p>Scratching out words that no longer fit<\/p>\n<p>Reading through those diaries is like<\/p>\n<p>Reading a history of thought itself<\/p>\n<p>Regrets, impulses, afterthoughts, all frozen for posterity to see<\/p>\n<p>Words on stone, papyrus, paper<\/p>\n<p>The pressure of a moving pen<\/p>\n<p>Sensations that will soon be forgotten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 17 (Half Marathon 2 Hour 5)\u00a0 As I write this poem in a Google Doc My thoughts turn to Mesopotamia To scribes meticulously carving each letter on stone Laying the foundation of centuries of literature So far, I have used backspace at least five&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74196","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\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74208,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74196\/revisions\/74208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}