{"id":110270,"date":"2022-06-25T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110270"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:23:04","slug":"the-prince-never-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-prince-never-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prince Never Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dead vines encircled the tower<br \/>\nOnce green, budding flowers, and thick thorns<br \/>\nNow withered, dry, and brittle<br \/>\nHalf the bricks from the structure have fallen<br \/>\nBlack vegetation still clinging<\/p>\n<p>Above all, the princess still sleeps<br \/>\nOnce dressed in a pure white gown<br \/>\nNow caked in dust, stained by sun and rain<br \/>\nHer face remains forever frozen in a state of youth<br \/>\nAs the rest of her body wanes<\/p>\n<p>Long ago there were hopes<br \/>\nA prince would come to break the enchantment<br \/>\nTake the princess as his wife<br \/>\nAnd carry her off to his kingdom<br \/>\nTo live the fantasy<\/p>\n<p>But the legend grew old<br \/>\nAnd with it, the location was mistaken<br \/>\nThe trials to face exaggerated<br \/>\nAnd no one could remember why<br \/>\nThe princess continued to sleep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead vines encircled the tower Once green, budding flowers, and thick thorns Now withered, dry, and brittle Half the bricks from the structure have fallen Black vegetation still clinging Above all, the princess still sleeps Once dressed in a pure white gown Now caked in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270","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=110270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110278,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270\/revisions\/110278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}