{"id":101939,"date":"2021-06-27T06:29:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101939"},"modified":"2021-06-27T06:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:29:56","slug":"prairie-kingsnake-hour-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/prairie-kingsnake-hour-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Prairie Kingsnake (Hour 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The transformation bridge,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rippled shadow set low<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to grounding curves of a gravel road. <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sleek, earth-smoothed face,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a muddy arrow point,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">striped lips that fold around the mouth. <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glistening sunlight refracted <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">upon each scale, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">talking plated armor,<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">feather sockets, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">scraped away to pliable shingles<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of ground hardened skin.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diamond studded rope of light,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sun-setting night prowler,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">river-whipping earth mover,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">blood warm hunter of the early evening.<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transformation bridge, rippled shadow set low to grounding curves of a gravel road. Sleek, earth-smoothed face, a muddy arrow point, striped lips that fold around the mouth. Glistening sunlight refracted upon each scale, talking plated armor, feather sockets, scraped away to pliable shingles of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101939","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101966,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101939\/revisions\/101966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}