{"id":93948,"date":"2021-06-26T17:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93948"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:28:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:28:29","slug":"echo-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/echo-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo (Hour 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800080\">&#8220;Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.&#8221; Lois Lowry <em>The Giver<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What was that?<\/p>\n<p>Behind him, he heard a scrape. GO!<\/p>\n<p>Across vast distances of space and time,<\/p>\n<p>from the place he had left, he\u00a0hears them,<\/p>\n<p>all the people he left behind.<\/p>\n<p>Quietly sounds drift to him.<\/p>\n<p>He used to make them laugh; now he makes them cry.<\/p>\n<p>There are too many words, too much emotion.<\/p>\n<p>It all bounces around in his mind.<\/p>\n<p>What is real? What is not?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s running. From what?<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t know. Did he ever know?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not sure, but he feels that running is right.<\/p>\n<p>Feet slapping concrete, blood pumping, sweat dripping,<\/p>\n<p>breath gasping, even though he is so, so tired and weak.<\/p>\n<p>Behind him, across vast distances of space and time,<\/p>\n<p>from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps it was only an echo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.&#8221; Lois Lowry The Giver What was that? Behind him, he heard a scrape. GO! Across vast distances&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93948","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\/1288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97303,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93948\/revisions\/97303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}