{"id":122038,"date":"2022-06-26T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=122038"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:35:12","slug":"the-monster-under-the-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-monster-under-the-stairs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monster Under the Stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have locked away the monster under the stairs<br \/>\nExiled now for crimes against my life<\/p>\n<p>Finally done because they did something unforgivable<br \/>\nGoing against everyone, myself, instinct, society, sanity<br \/>\nWe will be forever stared at for what they accomplished<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter that what they did<br \/>\nUltimately saved a life<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t even matter that what they did<br \/>\nWas agreed upon by everyone<\/p>\n<p>This one action has completely frightened me<br \/>\nI have locked away the monster under the stairs<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter that what they did<br \/>\nWas what I needed them to do for me<br \/>\nBecause I was terrified of what I had to do<\/p>\n<p>I have unlocked the door that holds the monster under the stairs<br \/>\nBecause it saved my life when I truly needed it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have locked away the monster under the stairs Exiled now for crimes against my life Finally done because they did something unforgivable Going against everyone, myself, instinct, society, sanity We will be forever stared at for what they accomplished It doesn\u2019t matter that what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122038","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122042,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122038\/revisions\/122042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}