{"id":924,"date":"2014-12-18T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2014-12-18T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:45:40","slug":"space-rock-or-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Space Rock &#8211; Or More?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Space Rock \u2013 Or More?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spiraling through space.<\/p>\n<p>Round and round.<\/p>\n<p>A freezing cold hunk of rock.<\/p>\n<p>Silence all around.<\/p>\n<p>Ever onward through the void.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s destination unknown.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>It traveled on alone.<\/p>\n<p>Time was non-existent here.<\/p>\n<p>Every revolution the same.<\/p>\n<p>Could life exist in such a state?<\/p>\n<p>Survive and not go insane?<\/p>\n<p>Yet,&#8212;- alive it was.<\/p>\n<p>Not as we would know life.<\/p>\n<p>Something different altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Still something that had the right<\/p>\n<p>to be called a sentient being.<\/p>\n<p>A living ship might be close<\/p>\n<p>To describe this hunk of rock.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be carrying ghosts<\/p>\n<p>onward to their destiny?<\/p>\n<p>If there was life within,<\/p>\n<p>there was no indication.<\/p>\n<p>Just a hunk of rock in space<\/p>\n<p>was all. No communication.<\/p>\n<p>A time will someday come<\/p>\n<p>when it will reach a destination.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the answer will reveal<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s final consecration.&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-R. W. Johnson&#8212;-(2011)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Space Rock \u2013 Or More? Spiraling through space. Round and round. A freezing cold hunk of rock. Silence all around. Ever onward through the void. It\u2019s destination unknown. There was nothing to avoid. It traveled on alone. Time was non-existent here. Every revolution the same. Could life exist in such a state? Survive and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=924\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space Rock &#8211; Or More?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-free-bird-poetry","category-random","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}