{"id":121828,"date":"2022-06-26T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121828"},"modified":"2022-06-27T08:09:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:09:18","slug":"the-silver-metal-lover-hour-twenty-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-silver-metal-lover-hour-twenty-three\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silver Metal Lover, Hour Twenty-Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Silver Metal Lover*<\/p>\n<p>He is the ultimate lover,<br \/>\nnever tires, never complains,<br \/>\nknows your preferences, and<br \/>\nflawlessly performs them every time.<\/p>\n<p>He never hungers,<br \/>\nnor does he thirst,<br \/>\nbut for your comfort<br \/>\nhe will simulate both.<\/p>\n<p>Your desires<br \/>\nare his desires<br \/>\nmanifested, made real,<br \/>\nand prioritized above all else.<\/p>\n<p>Should you need a shoulder<br \/>\nto cry on,<br \/>\nyou can soak his shirt<br \/>\nand he won&#8217;t complain.<\/p>\n<p>He is perfection personified,<br \/>\nand therefore, a threat.<br \/>\nA human lover could never compete,<br \/>\nand so he must go.<\/p>\n<p>He will be ripped apart,<br \/>\nhis supple silver skin slashed,<br \/>\ngears and wheels laid bare,<br \/>\nand melted down for scrap.<\/p>\n<p>This world cannot willingly abide<br \/>\nsomething as beautiful as he.<\/p>\n<p>*The Silver Metal Lover, by Tanith Lee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Silver Metal Lover* He is the ultimate lover, never tires, never complains, knows your preferences, and flawlessly performs them every time. He never hungers, nor does he thirst, but for your comfort he will simulate both. Your desires are his desires manifested, made real,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121828","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123450,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121828\/revisions\/123450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}