{"id":8199,"date":"2015-06-13T13:04:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8199"},"modified":"2015-06-13T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:05:09","slug":"the-tower-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-tower-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The tower &#8211; Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gleaming cubes<\/p>\n<p>stacked one atop another,<\/p>\n<p>each housing one body, one soul,<\/p>\n<p>empty bodies, empty souls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each cube a home,<\/p>\n<p>a white, gleaming box,<\/p>\n<p>spare of furniture,<\/p>\n<p>screens on all sides.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each cube a prison,<\/p>\n<p>each person a prisoner,<\/p>\n<p>chained to screens,<\/p>\n<p>soul sucking screens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is only inside<\/p>\n<p>only these white gleaming walls,<\/p>\n<p>there is no color, no smells,<\/p>\n<p>no personal contact, no outside.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is no connection,<\/p>\n<p>when always connected,<\/p>\n<p>no perspective, no understanding,<\/p>\n<p>no meaning, no point.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gleaming cubes,<\/p>\n<p>stacked one atop another,<\/p>\n<p>each cube a coffin,<\/p>\n<p>housing one person, one soul.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gleaming cubes stacked one atop another, each housing one body, one soul, empty bodies, empty souls. &nbsp; Each cube a home, a white, gleaming box, spare of furniture, screens on all sides. &nbsp; Each cube a prison, each person a prisoner, chained to screens, soul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199","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\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8325,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions\/8325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}