{"id":98380,"date":"2021-06-26T22:51:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98380"},"modified":"2021-07-09T18:45:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T22:45:14","slug":"athousandbluelights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/athousandbluelights\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Blue Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>POEM 14<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>They only give glimmer of light. The thousand blue canisters housing a thousand lives.<\/p>\n<p>Sacred hopes and dreams sealed and labeled filling a thousand slots of stored space.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t search for their catalogs the information is kept in digital files in that singular electronic eye that is ever on them.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wonder who they are, don&#8217;t envy them their lofty nests.<\/p>\n<p>Like a honeycomb of lenses waiting to shine out to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t approach the glimmer wall. The eye will capture your intent.<\/p>\n<p>You standing before it like a captive sentenced to a firing squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POEM 14 They only give glimmer of light. The thousand blue canisters housing a thousand lives. Sacred hopes and dreams sealed and labeled filling a thousand slots of stored space. Don&#8217;t search for their catalogs the information is kept in digital files in that singular&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98380","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\/3452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104315,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98380\/revisions\/104315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}