{"id":98638,"date":"2021-06-26T22:46:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98638"},"modified":"2022-06-29T22:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T02:50:38","slug":"oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"Oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The little robot<br \/>\nWas little more<br \/>\nThan a camera<br \/>\nAffixed by a metal pole<br \/>\nTo a bank of cryotubes.<\/p>\n<p>It could not move.<br \/>\nIt could not speak.<br \/>\nIts job was simple:<br \/>\nTo establish<br \/>\nWhen it was safe<br \/>\nAnd activate the release.<\/p>\n<p>The little robot<br \/>\nOn its little pole<br \/>\nOn its bank of tubes<br \/>\nHad been sitting in this spot<br \/>\nFor thirty-two years now.<\/p>\n<p>It watched the new planet.<br \/>\nIt saw lush meadows,<br \/>\nSparkling water.<br \/>\nIt detected oxygen.<br \/>\nBut it had seen the old Earth.<\/p>\n<p>It was unsafe to activate the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little robot Was little more Than a camera Affixed by a metal pole To a bank of cryotubes. It could not move. It could not speak. Its job was simple: To establish When it was safe And activate the release. The little robot On&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98638","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\/2314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124353,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98638\/revisions\/124353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}