{"id":98180,"date":"2021-06-26T21:54:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98180"},"modified":"2021-06-28T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T18:40:25","slug":"the-sky-filled-with-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-sky-filled-with-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Filled with Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I like that story<\/p>\n<p>where a visitor is told<\/p>\n<p><em>The universe is a blanket<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>spread above us as a tent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Over time the fires warmed us<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>sent up their sparks<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>to burn small holes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>through which the bright<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>light of the world beyond<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>shines through as stars.<\/em>\u00a0 Today<\/p>\n<p>Teresa writes to our family<\/p>\n<p>the results of her mother\u2019s scan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture the sky filled with stars,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>with several small asteroids <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>here and there<\/em> in my aunt\u2019s lung.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t.\u00a0 I hold this picture:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pat in a hot yellow mini dress<\/p>\n<p>marries my uncle, her beautiful<\/p>\n<p>beehive\u2014gathered and glossed\u2014<\/p>\n<p>rising high as a sun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I picture a life she\u2019s woven<\/p>\n<p>of hardship and disappointment,<\/p>\n<p>of faith and devotion,<\/p>\n<p>of tenderness, humor,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and Love.\u00a0 Picture a family<\/p>\n<p>as warm and as strong<\/p>\n<p>as a soft knitted blanket.<\/p>\n<p>She is the light shining through.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I like that story where a visitor is told The universe is a blanket spread above us as a tent &nbsp; Over time the fires warmed us sent up their sparks to burn small holes through which the bright &nbsp; light of the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":756,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98180","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\/756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98180"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103645,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98180\/revisions\/103645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}