{"id":112904,"date":"2022-06-25T16:29:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112904"},"modified":"2022-06-25T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:30:02","slug":"poem-8-that-guy-a-gigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/poem-8-that-guy-a-gigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 8. That Guy (A Gigan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">He doesn&#8217;t keep things forever.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Not pets nor people, Christmas tree bulbs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Nothing is an heirloom to him<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">but his mirror image<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">and triple length self publications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">He&#8217;s a tricky throw awayer <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">with his darting eyes, his clever lines<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">&#8220;Oh, you didn&#8217;t want that, did you?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">It looked so old and worn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\"> I threw it out for you.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">He doesn&#8217;t keep things forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">He&#8217;s a tricky throw awayer, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">slight of tongue and quick hair check<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">all but himself out the door.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Dogs and cats and comfy chairs&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">a woman called a fish.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_220625_102802_494.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He doesn&#8217;t keep things forever. Not pets nor people, Christmas tree bulbs Nothing is an heirloom to him but his mirror image and triple length self publications. He&#8217;s a tricky throw awayer with his darting eyes, his clever lines &#8220;Oh, you didn&#8217;t want that, did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112904","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112938,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112904\/revisions\/112938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}