{"id":93850,"date":"2021-06-26T16:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93850"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:52:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:52:41","slug":"hour-8-summary-of-seveneves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-8-summary-of-seveneves\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 8: Summary of Seveneves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time the moon<br \/>\nWas broken into seven pieces.<br \/>\nThe world watched on in horror<br \/>\nAs the danger increases.<br \/>\nA man proclaimed the world would end<br \/>\nIn a glittering white rain<br \/>\nFor five thousand years the sky would fall<br \/>\nNothing would ever be the same again.<br \/>\nMany people were sent to space<br \/>\nTo gather all together<br \/>\nOn the international space station<br \/>\nTo escape the fateful weather.<br \/>\nAs the world did end, chaos ensued<br \/>\nMutiny was attempted and lost<br \/>\nBut many of the last humans alive<br \/>\nWere killed, a very high cost.<br \/>\nIn the end only seven remained<br \/>\nTo repopulate the earth.<br \/>\nSeven women with strife between them<br \/>\nHad to all, but one, give birth.<br \/>\nTime went on, millenniums,<br \/>\nAnd finally the time came.<br \/>\nTo go back down to earth<br \/>\nWhich wasn\u2019t quite the same.<br \/>\nTechnology had soared,<br \/>\nWith cities in the sky<br \/>\nAn elevator and a tether<br \/>\nThat people traveling to earth could ride.<br \/>\nA group of seven people<br \/>\nWho each descended from a line<br \/>\nOf the seven eves<br \/>\nWho\u2019s futures would entwine.<br \/>\nThey traveled as a group to earth<br \/>\nLearning in epic waves.<br \/>\nThey met another group of folk<br \/>\nWho had lived underground, in caves.<br \/>\nA clash ensued and then betrayed<br \/>\nBy one of their seven.<br \/>\nThe one who did betray them<br \/>\nRode a hammer into the heavens.<br \/>\nThe people who were left<br \/>\nMade their way to the sea<br \/>\nWhere a new surprise awaited<br \/>\nJust what would it be?<br \/>\nAs the story did unfold, they found<br \/>\nAn underwater clan<br \/>\nThey came up from the watery depths<br \/>\nTo meet the group on land.<br \/>\nA link in the form of a picture<br \/>\nWas flashed silently up high<br \/>\nThe underwater people,<br \/>\nTheir eyes opened wide.<br \/>\nIn the end they came together<br \/>\nMade peace between the nations.<br \/>\nThe three groups made up the whole<br \/>\nOf the human population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time the moon Was broken into seven pieces. The world watched on in horror As the danger increases. A man proclaimed the world would end In a glittering white rain For five thousand years the sky would fall Nothing would ever be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93850","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94605,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93850\/revisions\/94605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}