{"id":1987,"date":"2002-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2020-07-25T18:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T22:19:43","slug":"poem-dragon-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"[Poem] Dragon City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The music has survived the apocalypse<br \/>\nFor this, we rejoice<br \/>\nIn all the ways we know how.<\/p>\n<p>The beat lives on, an<br \/>\naffirmation of our survival<br \/>\nand a praise to humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The voice shatters silence with a perfect tone<br \/>\nsurvivors claw themselves out<br \/>\nfrom under rubble.<\/p>\n<p>All stops, silence reigns, under a moving shadow<br \/>\nA roar like trumpeting thunder<br \/>\nSends them scurrying.<\/p>\n<p>It lands with the crunching<br \/>\nof pavement<br \/>\nand spreads scaled wings.<\/p>\n<p>When they finally dare to look:<br \/>\nA harmless man in black clothes<br \/>\nLeather trench flapping in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>He asks them to sing<br \/>\nPleads<br \/>\nAnd they see he&#8217;s crying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music has survived the apocalypse For this, we rejoice In all the ways we know how. The beat lives on, an affirmation of our survival and a praise to humanity. The voice shatters silence with a perfect tone survivors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1987\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,35,15],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-livejournal","tag-poetry","tag-writery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-w3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5231,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}