{"id":120011,"date":"2022-06-26T03:48:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120011"},"modified":"2022-06-26T03:48:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:48:46","slug":"beyond-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/beyond-scared\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond scared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never really feared monsters<br \/>\nboogeymen in closets<br \/>\ndemented clowns<br \/>\nthings from other dimensions<\/p>\n<p>Meh.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up in the 1960s watching<br \/>\n50s B movies<br \/>\nKarloff, Lugosi epics saw<br \/>\nGodzilla as cute, not menacing<\/p>\n<p>Fun<\/p>\n<p>Now in my sixth decade I do<br \/>\nbelieve in monsters<br \/>\nthey wear suits<br \/>\ndon\u2019t like us very much, they lie<\/p>\n<p>Truth.<\/p>\n<p>The real monsters slop from TV<br \/>\nlike the blob<br \/>\ngrotesque, like<br \/>\nthe radiation scarred mad doctor<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>The monsters \u2013 the real threats \u2013<br \/>\nwalk among us<br \/>\nnot as zombies \u2013 those would<br \/>\njust be us, who made the monsters<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2022<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never really feared monsters boogeymen in closets demented clowns things from other dimensions Meh. I grew up in the 1960s watching 50s B movies Karloff, Lugosi epics saw Godzilla as cute, not menacing Fun Now in my sixth decade I do believe in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[5450,5540],"class_list":["post-120011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-2022hour17","tag-2022prompt17monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120011","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120019,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120011\/revisions\/120019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}