{"id":116727,"date":"2022-06-25T21:33:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116727"},"modified":"2022-06-25T21:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:33:42","slug":"shadow-of-the-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/shadow-of-the-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow of the Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shadow of the Tower<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the shadow of the Tower<\/p>\n<p>just beyond the Circle,<\/p>\n<p>practicing Tai Chi in Central Park<\/p>\n<p>as Bennie, Zoe, Liz, Adams,<\/p>\n<p>broadcast tales of criminal corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Empty wine bottle on nearby bench<\/p>\n<p>proclaims last night\u2019s comradery,<\/p>\n<p>debauchery while other creatures slumber.<\/p>\n<p>Brazen little brown mouse<\/p>\n<p>scampers between our feet<\/p>\n<p>asking for some reciprocity,<\/p>\n<p>some quid pro quo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow about I don\u2019t crawl up your leg,<\/p>\n<p>you drop me some food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We play in Central Park,<\/p>\n<p>home to mobster mice,<\/p>\n<p>guarded by monuments to evil men.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow of the Tower \u00a0 In the shadow of the Tower just beyond the Circle, practicing Tai Chi in Central Park as Bennie, Zoe, Liz, Adams, broadcast tales of criminal corruption. Empty wine bottle on nearby bench proclaims last night\u2019s comradery, debauchery while other creatures&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116727","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116756,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116727\/revisions\/116756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}