{"id":1205,"date":"2016-09-05T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2016-09-05T06:32:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T13:32:23","slug":"martian-by-christina-sng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Martian by Christina Sng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Red_Ocean_Landscape-300x225.png\" alt=\"Red_Ocean_Landscape\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Red_Ocean_Landscape-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Red_Ocean_Landscape-768x576.png 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Red_Ocean_Landscape.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the days of past,<br \/>\nI would swim in the grand ocean<br \/>\nOn a single breath into its depths,<\/p>\n<p>Marvelling at the<br \/>\nWondrous array of creatures<br \/>\nOur world has made.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient ocean,<br \/>\nAbundant and teeming with life<br \/>\nTill our planet&#8217;s shell<\/p>\n<p>Stripped away into the vacuum<br \/>\nAnd our water along with it.<br \/>\nFor eons, the skeletons<\/p>\n<p>Of our ocean creatures<br \/>\nLined the mosaic graveyard<br \/>\nOf the fallen sea<\/p>\n<p>Till even they eroded away<br \/>\nAs space rocks engraved them<br \/>\nWith their relentless teeth marks.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I find myself on your planet,<br \/>\nStill raw from that asphyxiating ride<br \/>\nOn the asteroid into your sea,<\/p>\n<p>A sea very different from mine,<br \/>\nYet I thrive,<br \/>\nHaving evolved in the void.<\/p>\n<p>And now you are sending<br \/>\nYour people to my dead world<br \/>\nTo see if it is habitable.<\/p>\n<p>Stay here, I plead,<br \/>\nBut you do not listen.<br \/>\nAll you see is hope where I see death.<\/p>\n<p>I will tell you where to find them.<br \/>\nThey are beneath the ocean,<br \/>\nFragments and memories of them,<\/p>\n<p>My people from a forgotten era.<br \/>\nTell them I am here.<br \/>\nTell them I am waiting.<\/p>\n<h6>illustration by &#8220;planet user&#8221;, shared under creative common license.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days of past, I would swim in the grand ocean On a single breath into its depths, Marvelling at the Wondrous array of creatures Our world has made. The ancient ocean, Abundant and teeming with life Till our planet&#8217;s shell Stripped away into the vacuum And our water along with it. For eons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}