{"id":91421,"date":"2021-06-26T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91421"},"modified":"2021-06-28T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:33:05","slug":"hour-five-image-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-five-image-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Five, Image Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Rest<\/p>\n<p>The image is meant to soothe,<br \/>\ninspire tranquillity,<br \/>\ndeep thought transcending<br \/>\na world in turmoil and outer chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Empty bottles are artfully staged<br \/>\nwith generic meditation statues<br \/>\ndevoid of life, as is the corpse-<br \/>\nlike person displayed as though<br \/>\non a coroner&#8217;s slab, hearing nothing<br \/>\nthrough unconnected headphones,<br \/>\nunseeing eyes fixed on a middle distance,<br \/>\na half smile pasted to a slackened face.<\/p>\n<p>It is so smooth it annoys,<br \/>\nso still it suffocates,<br \/>\nmonochromatic and emptied<br \/>\ncliche advertisement.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth wall is breached<br \/>\nwithin my mind<br \/>\nas the corpse removes his headphones,<br \/>\nturns, and slyly winks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Rest The image is meant to soothe, inspire tranquillity, deep thought transcending a world in turmoil and outer chaos. Empty bottles are artfully staged with generic meditation statues devoid of life, as is the corpse- like person displayed as though on a coroner&#8217;s slab,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91421","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103605,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91421\/revisions\/103605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}