{"id":121240,"date":"2022-06-26T06:49:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121240"},"modified":"2022-06-27T00:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T04:04:24","slug":"hour-22-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-22-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 22: who&#8217;s the monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i watch you,<br \/>\nhawk-eyed<br \/>\nthough it is you<br \/>\nwho&#8217;re preying<br \/>\non my misery<br \/>\ni watch you<br \/>\nwhen i turn<br \/>\nthis way or that<br \/>\nsomehow<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re always<br \/>\nin my field of vision<br \/>\nthrowing<br \/>\nyour head back<br \/>\nand laughing<br \/>\nat some silly<br \/>\njoke SHE&#8217;s told you<br \/>\nand i see<br \/>\nthe vein<br \/>\nin your neck throb<br \/>\nmy skin&#8217;s gone cold<br \/>\nmouth&#8217;s dry<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ve forgotten<br \/>\nso easily?<br \/>\nwhich side of you<br \/>\ndo i believe?<br \/>\nthe one that<br \/>\ncalls me<br \/>\nin secret<br \/>\naffirming<br \/>\nour bond?<br \/>\nor the hand that&#8217;s<br \/>\nclutching HERS<br \/>\nnow?<br \/>\nit&#8217;s over, the spring<br \/>\nleaves, proud<br \/>\nin their green<br \/>\ntenderness,<br \/>\nsay smugly to me<br \/>\nand something shardy<br \/>\nhurts so deep<br \/>\ni bleed<br \/>\nand my skin<br \/>\nerupts<br \/>\nthe doctor&#8217;s verdict:<br \/>\n<em>lichens planus<\/em><br \/>\nlikely cause: extreme<br \/>\nemotional stress <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i watch you, hawk-eyed though it is you who&#8217;re preying on my misery i watch you when i turn this way or that somehow you&#8217;re always in my field of vision throwing your head back and laughing at some silly joke SHE&#8217;s told you and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,1136,441,5],"tags":[5610,4375,2707,5613,183,987],"class_list":["post-121240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2022thepoetrymarathon","tag-ermelindamakkimane","tag-hour22","tag-2022hour22","tag-emotions","tag-hurt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121240","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\/3670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123685,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121240\/revisions\/123685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}