{"id":120136,"date":"2022-06-26T04:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120136"},"modified":"2022-06-26T04:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:04:46","slug":"hour-17-how-the-mighty-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-17-how-the-mighty-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 17: How the mighty fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was a magnificent creature, the son of Typhon and Echidna<br \/>\nHis mammoth heads inspired awe and fear alike<br \/>\nHe was the dreaded monster, known as the Lernean Hydra<br \/>\nHis abode was the seas, he ruled with great elan<br \/>\nAnd ravaged the inhabitants and livestock of Lerna<br \/>\nAnd, when they tried to retaliate and him behead,<br \/>\nOut sprouted from his wounds, two more heads, even more terrible, even more vicious<br \/>\nHis boon of one immortal head, only further fanned his ego and arrogance<br \/>\nBut the two heroes, Heracles and Iolaus  orchestrated his doom<br \/>\nAnd buried his immortal head under a heavy rock<br \/>\nIt still lies there, a testimony to how the mighty fall<br \/>\nThe gigantic monster could have been ruling the worlds,<br \/>\nIf only he had discerned; power is synonymous with responsibility&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was a magnificent creature, the son of Typhon and Echidna His mammoth heads inspired awe and fear alike He was the dreaded monster, known as the Lernean Hydra His abode was the seas, he ruled with great elan And ravaged the inhabitants and livestock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120136","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\/4553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120169,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120136\/revisions\/120169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}