{"id":74607,"date":"2020-06-28T04:07:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74607"},"modified":"2020-06-29T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T19:24:05","slug":"infinite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/infinite\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt 19 (Half Marathon 2 Hour 7)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I stare up at the night sky, dotted with stars<br \/>\nAnd I am no longer in my body<br \/>\nI float upward till I see what they are<br \/>\nBalls of fire, orange and gaudy<\/p>\n<p>I see Earth in all its blue and green<br \/>\nA contrast to its unfriendly looking neighbors<br \/>\nThen I speed through the entirety of the galaxy<br \/>\nPast planets, moons with massive craters<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m in a galaxy far far away<br \/>\nI see a new planet from afar<br \/>\nWith sentient beings going about their day<br \/>\nA planet not too different from ours<\/p>\n<p>But as I move closer, lo and behold<br \/>\nThere exists nothing but dust<br \/>\nWhat I saw was a snapshot that was as old<br \/>\nAs the light from it that I now touch<\/p>\n<p>And then I am back in my backyard<br \/>\nStaring up at the night sky<br \/>\nWhen I departed, I felt tall, strong, and sharp<br \/>\nI return, but a humble fly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 19 (Half Marathon 2 Hour 7) I stare up at the night sky, dotted with stars And I am no longer in my body I float upward till I see what they are Balls of fire, orange and gaudy I see Earth in all&#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-74607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74607","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=74607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74616,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74607\/revisions\/74616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}