{"id":113427,"date":"2022-06-25T17:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113427"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:11:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:11:15","slug":"of-honor-killings-and-curses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/of-honor-killings-and-curses\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Honor Killings and Curses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whispering zephyrs secrets reveal<br \/>\nThe old village Banyan tries hard to conceal<\/p>\n<p>Underneath the cloak of stygian skies<br \/>\nlay stories concealed from seeing eyes<br \/>\nand floods of tears from forced goodbyes<\/p>\n<p>But time is the keeper of all tales<br \/>\nblind yet partial to some details<\/p>\n<p>When its wheels round do turn<br \/>\nHistory is repeated and oft churned<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Karma&#8217;s eyes fair cards do deal<br \/>\nWhispering zephyrs secrets reveal<\/p>\n<p>But time is the keeper of all tales<br \/>\nAnd churns to what karma entails<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t blind to true lovers&#8217; wails<\/p>\n<p>Under the Banyan tree, lovers were slayed<br \/>\nThe village was cursed, barren it stayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whispering zephyrs secrets reveal The old village Banyan tries hard to conceal Underneath the cloak of stygian skies lay stories concealed from seeing eyes and floods of tears from forced goodbyes But time is the keeper of all tales blind yet partial to some details&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5034,2309,5174],"class_list":["post-113427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2022halfmarathon-thepoetrymarathon","tag-hour8","tag-gigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113427","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\/3065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113441,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113427\/revisions\/113441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}