{"id":99758,"date":"2021-06-27T01:17:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99758"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:17:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:17:47","slug":"hour-17-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-17-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 17: The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bright, blinding light<br \/>\nGreeted me as I looked<br \/>\nAt him, for the first time<br \/>\nLike he was a miniature sun<br \/>\nWarm, bright, full of smiles.<\/p>\n<p>Drawn to him, I was<br \/>\nLike the moon, cold<br \/>\nBut couldn&#8217;t help wanting<br \/>\nA part of light<br \/>\nA part of the bright warmth.<\/p>\n<p>And when everything was over<br \/>\nI realised, too late<br \/>\nThe sun&#8217;s warmth is due to distance<br \/>\nIt burns, itself and anything else<br \/>\nThat comes close<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kindness, born from fire<br \/>\nThe warmth, almost cruel in<br \/>\nHow unbearable it really is<br \/>\nAnd like Icarus, it was me falling<br \/>\nInto the ocean of despair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright, blinding light Greeted me as I looked At him, for the first time Like he was a miniature sun Warm, bright, full of smiles. Drawn to him, I was Like the moon, cold But couldn&#8217;t help wanting A part of light A part of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99758","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99770,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99758\/revisions\/99770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}