{"id":87682,"date":"2021-06-26T09:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87682"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:28:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:28:03","slug":"limitless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/limitless\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1 &#8211; Limitless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if we could stop the clock? Or<br \/>\ndivert those ominously marching hands<br \/>\ndown a rabbit hole spiral of clock faces,<br \/>\nlet them eat away at an infinite mobius strip,<br \/>\nan ouroboros-esque monster,<br \/>\nwhile we continued to live<br \/>\nunafraid. Existing only adjacent<br \/>\nto the now-pointless continuation<br \/>\nof hours and days.<\/p>\n<p>If we could build an end to time,<br \/>\njust to circumvent The Ends<br \/>\ntime would otherwise deliver,<br \/>\nwhat meaning would be left?<br \/>\nWhat purpose in our endeavors,<br \/>\nin how we spend our metered seconds,<br \/>\nif there are no earthly limits<br \/>\nto impress their importance?<br \/>\nWhat delight in the fleeting foxglove,<br \/>\nwhat wonder in early years of life,<br \/>\nboth lived and witnessed?<\/p>\n<p>The power of a moment<br \/>\nrelies on its brevity;<br \/>\non the promise that another instant<br \/>\nwill replace the old with novelty.<br \/>\nWithout time&#8217;s Ends, its Beginnings<br \/>\nwould also be lost.<\/p>\n<p>We love because one day we won&#8217;t,<br \/>\ndue to their absence or our own.<br \/>\nWe cannot stop or slow the clock,<br \/>\nour age progresses ever forward\u2014<br \/>\nnever deviating from its steady advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if we could stop the clock? Or divert those ominously marching hands down a rabbit hole spiral of clock faces, let them eat away at an infinite mobius strip, an ouroboros-esque monster, while we continued to live unafraid. Existing only adjacent to the now-pointless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87682","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91403,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87682\/revisions\/91403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}