{"id":74261,"date":"2020-06-28T03:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T07:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74261"},"modified":"2020-06-28T03:22:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T07:22:30","slug":"the-entity-prompt-19-hour-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-entity-prompt-19-hour-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The Entity &#8211; Prompt 19, Hour 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was seen in the ocean, they gave it a name<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t like that&#8230; It left.<\/p>\n<p>They forgot about it, it fell to legends and myth.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t like that either&#8230; it came back.<\/p>\n<p>When it returned the world trembled,<\/p>\n<p>for it was longer than anyone previously measured<\/p>\n<p>and nearly invisible above sea level.<\/p>\n<p>Soon people were snatched up by it,<\/p>\n<p>first children and small animals,<\/p>\n<p>then the neighbors, marine biologists.<\/p>\n<p>Then it became angry. We made the thing angry.<\/p>\n<p>It stopped being methodical, it went full stealth,<\/p>\n<p>It killed all the soldiers, the doctors, the farmers.<\/p>\n<p>It destroyed all the roads and fried all the cars.<\/p>\n<p>That horrifying creature from the deep.<\/p>\n<p>Then I went to bed, woke up, it all was well.<\/p>\n<p>There was no sign of that demon from hell.<\/p>\n<p>Until I saw the paper, of this creature from the deep.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it was just a dream. Perhaps a vision from my sleep.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/04\/jelly-creature.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"A huge siphonophore Apolemia sea creature is shown in this close-up view.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was seen in the ocean, they gave it a name It didn&#8217;t like that&#8230; It left. They forgot about it, it fell to legends and myth. It didn&#8217;t like that either&#8230; it came back. When it returned the world trembled, for it was longer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74261","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\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74374,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74261\/revisions\/74374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}