{"id":88149,"date":"2021-06-26T09:54:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88149"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:10:53","slug":"hour-1-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-1-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1, This is Not the End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is Not the End of the World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">after Neil Hilborn<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve been hearing that the world is ending<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mostly from a voice slightly different from my own<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whispering in my left ear <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right behind the eardrum<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve heard it so much these days I can either<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Accept the dread or find a way to pay for my medication<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is nothing but endings in both<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of this version of me who stalks their own mind<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who sees their next meal\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And watches it smile back in the reflection<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who wonders what it is like to be calm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be empty<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To live and breathe<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Without the future running nails down their back<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Not the End of the World after Neil Hilborn &nbsp; I\u2019ve been hearing that the world is ending Mostly from a voice slightly different from my own Whispering in my left ear Right behind the eardrum I\u2019ve heard it so much these days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88149","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\/3778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89385,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88149\/revisions\/89385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}