{"id":101294,"date":"2021-06-27T04:49:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101294"},"modified":"2021-06-27T04:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:49:56","slug":"night-of-a-deadly-howl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/night-of-a-deadly-howl\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of a Deadly Howl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It was written that night would grow teeth<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">unfriendly to mortals and suck their blood.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">What would be left the prophet calls dust.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I read: when it touches the ground, it&#8217;d blend with it.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">What is memory if not a symphony of circumspect?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I cut the page of the scripture where it was written,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">and fisted it in my left palm for reminder sake.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tobi said he did so. But he didn&#8217;t survive his last walk.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nights are dangerous these days than den of lions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I&#8217;ve lost more than a friend to the night I can&#8217;t query.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Is it the kind of night you want me to walk?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Needless to write about sightless shrapnel<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">that hit Tomi on a broad daylight.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Imagine what the night here holds for a bird<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">(not owl) walking the night of shades like ghost.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was written that night would grow teeth unfriendly to mortals and suck their blood. What would be left the prophet calls dust. I read: when it touches the ground, it&#8217;d blend with it. What is memory if not a symphony of circumspect? I cut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101294","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101301,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101294\/revisions\/101301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}