{"id":91802,"date":"2021-06-26T13:58:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91802"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:58:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:58:33","slug":"sky-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/sky-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I wanted to be a Cosmonaut<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">because Yuri Gagarin is a more melodious name<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">than John Glenn, because the Soviet<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">artists depicted outer space like poetry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rather than like science.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first woman in space,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">also a Cosmonaut,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">coincidentally romantically named<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Valentina. She radioed down\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">from her solo flight: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is I, Seagull! Everything is fine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I see the horizon; it&#8217;s a sky blue with a dark strip.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to be a Cosmonaut because Yuri Gagarin is a more melodious name than John Glenn, because the Soviet artists depicted outer space like poetry rather than like science.\u00a0 The first woman in space, also a Cosmonaut,\u00a0 coincidentally romantically named Valentina. She radioed down\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91802","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\/2858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91810,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91802\/revisions\/91810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}