{"id":74587,"date":"2020-06-28T04:48:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74587"},"modified":"2020-06-28T04:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:48:47","slug":"the-sun-is-also-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-sun-is-also-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Is Also A Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the ultra-violet rays caress your chocolate skin,<br \/>\nI find myself melting in the dilution of sunshine and caramel.<br \/>\nBlinded by this star that shines 152.08 million km from your face.<br \/>\nBut still, I stand in awe as you seem to rise to the skyline,<br \/>\nHave the sun&#8217;s arms pick you up and have your face near its lips as,<br \/>\nThe Sun plants its lips on your body and uses you as a reflective surface,<br \/>\nNone of that mythological folklore,<br \/>\nNo Edward Cullen or twilight romance.<br \/>\nRather the perfect story to fit the breaking dawn arc.<br \/>\nAs the waking that is you meet the Sun at sunrise,<br \/>\nAs if synchronized under theatre light.<br \/>\nThe sun rises and sets in your eyes,<br \/>\nAnd each time is as beautiful as the last.<br \/>\nYour sunkissed body is a diamond.<br \/>\nAs the sun dances over our skin,<br \/>\nWe find love in the dark,<br \/>\nAs we soak in as much warmth as our bodies can withstand.<br \/>\nIlluminate our hidden truths and burn down the last of our insecurities.<br \/>\nThe Sun is also a star,<br \/>\nIt shines brighter than a sky turned off at midnight,<br \/>\nAnd lit up but by starlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the ultra-violet rays caress your chocolate skin, I find myself melting in the dilution of sunshine and caramel. Blinded by this star that shines 152.08 million km from your face. But still, I stand in awe as you seem to rise to the skyline,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74587","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\/1425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74899,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74587\/revisions\/74899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}