{"id":95726,"date":"2021-06-26T18:58:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95726"},"modified":"2021-07-08T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:46:58","slug":"prompt-ten-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/prompt-ten-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Year\u2019s Day, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Still sequestered<br \/>\nno hope on the horizon \u2013<br \/>\nlike living in the Yukon<br \/>\nin the deep of winter<\/p>\n<p>night bleeds into days<br \/>\nand days<br \/>\nand days<\/p>\n<p>two<br \/>\nhundred<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nseventy<br \/>\nfive<br \/>\ndays <\/p>\n<p>of zooming into other<br \/>\npeople\u2019s homes \u2013<br \/>\nvirtual embraces<\/p>\n<p>outside \u2013<br \/>\nthe half-masked smiles<br \/>\nof strangers<\/p>\n<p>sanity, barely threading<br \/>\nits way through our minds<br \/>\nbarely hanging on<br \/>\nbarely breathing<\/p>\n<p>but<\/p>\n<p>July promises possibilities,<br \/>\na summer festival \u2013<br \/>\na veritable feast for those<br \/>\nhungry for contact<\/p>\n<p>forage on from the<br \/>\nsummer solstice<br \/>\nof the Yukon\u2019s<br \/>\nmidnight sun \u2013<br \/>\nbanish darkness<br \/>\nto the outer realms<\/p>\n<p>touch hope<br \/>\nagain, and again<br \/>\nand again<br \/>\nto be sure<br \/>\nit\u2019s real<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Should old acquaintance be forgot<br \/>\nand never brought to mind&#8230;\u2019<\/p>\n<p>(Cristy Watson, 2021)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year\u2019s Day, 2021 Still sequestered no hope on the horizon \u2013 like living in the Yukon in the deep of winter night bleeds into days and days and days two hundred and seventy five days of zooming into other people\u2019s homes \u2013 virtual embraces&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95726","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\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104259,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95726\/revisions\/104259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}