{"id":113518,"date":"2022-06-25T17:15:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113518"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:15:50","slug":"8th-hour-gigan-how-we-got-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/8th-hour-gigan-how-we-got-here\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Hour – GIGAN How We Got Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hour Eight-\u00a0 GIGAN\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0How We Got Here\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mary Pecaut<\/span><\/p>\n

After Ruth Ellen Kocher<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

you imagine you are god – a god like no other<\/span><\/p>\n

like Zeus, the ruler, protector of all gods and humans<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

you imagine you are here to help gods, goddesses and mortals<\/span><\/p>\n

-unless they are not worthy of your help –<\/span><\/p>\n

giving rights and privileges in exchange for allegiance<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

your weakness for women should have been your downfall<\/span><\/p>\n

repeat cheat in a world without morals<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

as though we cannot see you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

shape shift, lie and deceive<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

a tame white bull in Europa\u2019s father\u2019s herd you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

rape, for you imagine you are god<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

your weakness for women should have made you fall down<\/span><\/p>\n

down down to the underworld<\/span><\/p>\n

apprentice to Hades<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

godly power can be misused<\/span><\/p>\n

ask anyone seduced by Zeus\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hour Eight-\u00a0 GIGAN\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0How We Got Here\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mary Pecaut After Ruth Ellen Kocher   you imagine you are god – a god like no other like Zeus, the ruler, protector of all gods and humans…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113518","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\/1509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113561,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113518\/revisions\/113561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}