{"id":94011,"date":"2021-06-26T16:56:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94011"},"modified":"2021-06-26T16:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:56:04","slug":"champlain-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/champlain-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Champlain Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expanse of the Atlantic,<br \/>\nA tin house like an aberration.<br \/>\nThe cabana to change your clothes,<br \/>\nconsidering how to hide<br \/>\nyour car keys when you walk<br \/>\nout to the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>A sinkhole, a marvel of nature,<br \/>\nhuman negligence in Surfside.<br \/>\nWe used to drive down to visit<br \/>\nsome private school boys there.<br \/>\nRonnie, who would stroke my hand<br \/>\nlike a kitten, and called me rhyming<br \/>\nnicknames in a singsong voice.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed after the disaster,<br \/>\nMoshe Candiotti said \u201cthe building vibrates.\u201d<br \/>\nHe imagines its must be what an earthquake<br \/>\nfeels like. Running down the stairs, Moshe<br \/>\nsees the other side of the building<br \/>\nAlready in ruins. Ronnie were you there<br \/>\nat the Shul of Bal Harbour, sorting<br \/>\ndonations for survivors, not worrying<br \/>\nabout where to hide your keys?<br \/>\nA tin house like an aberration,<br \/>\nthe expanse of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expanse of the Atlantic, A tin house like an aberration. The cabana to change your clothes, considering how to hide your car keys when you walk out to the ocean. A sinkhole, a marvel of nature, human negligence in Surfside. We used to drive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94011","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=94011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94242,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94011\/revisions\/94242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}