{"id":117527,"date":"2022-06-25T22:57:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117527"},"modified":"2022-06-26T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T16:48:28","slug":"la-llorona-the-lady-of-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/la-llorona-the-lady-of-the-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"La Llorona &#8211; the Lady of the Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All night long in lamentations<br \/>\nshe walks the murky water\u2019s edge<br \/>\nit seems she\u2019s lost her precious babies,<br \/>\nshe desperately reaches down to dredge<br \/>\nthe cold and black abysmal waters<br \/>\nof the swamp that took their lives<br \/>\nshe wails and howls for all to hear her<br \/>\na refusal to recognize<br \/>\nthat they are gone to her forever<br \/>\nand forever curs-ed she will be.<\/p>\n<p>As a young girl I cried tears with her<br \/>\nand swore she didn\u2019t frighten me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All night long in lamentations she walks the murky water\u2019s edge it seems she\u2019s lost her precious babies, she desperately reaches down to dredge the cold and black abysmal waters of the swamp that took their lives she wails and howls for all to hear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[5363,4880],"class_list":["post-117527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2022-hour-14","tag-2022-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117527","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\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123361,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117527\/revisions\/123361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}