{"id":102740,"date":"2021-06-27T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102740"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:07:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:07:37","slug":"books-were-safer-than-people-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/books-were-safer-than-people-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Books were safer than people anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books were safer than people anyway<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what I said to myself<br \/>\nAs I slid another book onto the wall<br \/>\nBlocking the sunlight<\/p>\n<p>Built shelves over the windows<br \/>\nSo I wouldn\u2019t see the outside world<br \/>\nAnd locked myself away<\/p>\n<p>My only company<br \/>\nWould be fictional characters<br \/>\nThose that I would let in<\/p>\n<p>I would eat breakfast with Holden<br \/>\nMake dinner with D&#8217;artagnan<br \/>\nAnd drink scotch with Morse<\/p>\n<p>I am done with people<br \/>\nLocked away with my books<br \/>\nI am safe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books were safer than people anyway That\u2019s what I said to myself As I slid another book onto the wall Blocking the sunlight Built shelves over the windows So I wouldn\u2019t see the outside world And locked myself away My only company Would be fictional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102740","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102741,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102740\/revisions\/102741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}