{"id":75409,"date":"2020-06-28T06:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75409"},"modified":"2020-06-28T06:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:26:46","slug":"the-cliffs-of-atuin-prompt-22-hour-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-cliffs-of-atuin-prompt-22-hour-22\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cliffs of A&#8217;tuin &#8211; Prompt 22, Hour 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where could I live<br \/>\nthe thought crossed my mind<br \/>\nas sands slipped<br \/>\nand stars shined.<br \/>\nLate at night,<br \/>\nthough early for some,<br \/>\nI imagined a home<br \/>\nand how that home would come.<br \/>\nThe sun would set<br \/>\njust out of sight,<br \/>\nnot too intense<br \/>\nwhile water crashed<br \/>\nrefracting the light<br \/>\nand waves fell on<br \/>\nblack sand.<br \/>\nI could live there,<br \/>\nI mused, as family<br \/>\nmoved around.<br \/>\nI could leave this mess behind<br \/>\nand live in a cave by the sea.<br \/>\nOh, how peaceful that would be.<br \/>\nAlas, no, it&#8217;s not a future,<br \/>\nnot for me,<br \/>\nfor they&#8217;d come to find me<br \/>\nwith debts and plans<br \/>\nand hare-brained schemes<br \/>\nto ruin my tranquility.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d come to find me<br \/>\nand it would no longer be home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/joshua-sortino-IlvY3z4KVCI-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" width=\"459\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where could I live the thought crossed my mind as sands slipped and stars shined. Late at night, though early for some, I imagined a home and how that home would come. The sun would set just out of sight, not too intense while water&#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-75409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75409","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=75409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75604,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75409\/revisions\/75604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}