{"id":119045,"date":"2022-06-26T01:41:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119045"},"modified":"2022-06-26T01:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:41:20","slug":"hour-seventeen-with-eyes-of-flame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-seventeen-with-eyes-of-flame\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Seventeen &#8211; With Eyes of Flame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Eyes of Flame<br \/>\n&#8211; a golden shovel after <em>Jabberwocky<\/em> by Lewis Carroll<\/p>\n<p>The mission is good, the mission is important, the<br \/>\nmission is imperative. That beast! That Jabberwock!<br \/>\nIt is essential that it be subdued, place under guard with<br \/>\nno chance of escape, or killed. I have not seen it with my own eyes,<br \/>\nyet, but does that mean we should take any chances? Of<br \/>\ncourse the rumors may be false. Who can believe it has eyes of flame?<br \/>\nBut better we err on the side of caution. Safe, not sorry. We came<br \/>\nto this wasteland in hopes of peace, with a jaunty ease, whiffling<br \/>\nour way through. But now we know: this place is not safe. And through<br \/>\nnew rules, new safeguards, we all will live, and live well! I tell you, The<br \/>\nCommand has your best interest at heart! Our opposition, the Tulgey<br \/>\nBrigade, would have you believe the beast is friendly. Friendly! This wood<br \/>\nis filled with horrifying creatures, and the Jabberwock is the worst! And<br \/>\nwhat\u2019s more, it intends to kill the lot of us! That noise that it burbled?<br \/>\nThat is its death cry! As a commander of many armies, and as<br \/>\nleader in many similar explorations, you can depend on me to know. It<br \/>\nis my duty to . . .  Aaaaaah, it came!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Eyes of Flame &#8211; a golden shovel after Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll The mission is good, the mission is important, the mission is imperative. That beast! That Jabberwock! It is essential that it be subdued, place under guard with no chance of escape, or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119045","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\/119045","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119056,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119045\/revisions\/119056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}