{"id":90817,"date":"2021-06-26T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90817"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:00:27","slug":"hour-four-2021-grab-a-book-and-write-the-last-line-lead-into-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-four-2021-grab-a-book-and-write-the-last-line-lead-into-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Four, 2021 \/\/ Grab A Book and Write the Last Line &#8211;&amp; Lead Into a Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<em>George&#8217;s Marvelous Medicine\u00a0<\/em>by Roald Dahl: &#8220;For a few brief moments he had touched with the very tips of his fingers the edge of a magic world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<pre>Traveling to the end of the world\u00a0\r\nto touch waves lapping onto the shore, \r\nshe trusted there was magic in holding\r\nsoil, sand, and sea foam in hands which \r\ncould shape, manipulate, connive, and create\r\nsomething useful and beneficial. \r\nAn alchemist? Far from it despite people's \r\nobstinate demand to cast healing as magical. \r\nA witch? Far from it despite the cruel and again \r\nobstinate demand to cast others as demonic. \r\nHer remedies would come from those handfuls of \r\nsoil, sand, and sea foam gathered, formed, and \r\nmassaged into salves to bind others' pain.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0George&#8217;s Marvelous Medicine\u00a0by Roald Dahl: &#8220;For a few brief moments he had touched with the very tips of his fingers the edge of a magic world.&#8221; Traveling to the end of the world\u00a0 to touch waves lapping onto the shore, she trusted there was magic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90817","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\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90975,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90817\/revisions\/90975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}