{"id":122506,"date":"2022-06-26T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=122506"},"modified":"2022-06-26T08:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:15:59","slug":"poem-23-the-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/poem-23-the-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 23: The Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the winter of 1849<br \/>\n&#8211; or so we think \u2013<br \/>\nthe wooden bones of The Terror<br \/>\nwere finally broken.<\/p>\n<p>Encroaching ice claimed<br \/>\nthis stubborn blight<br \/>\non a wild frozen sea<br \/>\nwithout remorse.<\/p>\n<p>Those still seeking its shelter<br \/>\nwere doomed to walk<br \/>\nstark glacial landscapes<br \/>\nravenous and afraid.<\/p>\n<p>What we have left of them<br \/>\nare rusted rifles, stone cairns<br \/>\nand bones gnawed<br \/>\nin desperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the winter of 1849 &#8211; or so we think \u2013 the wooden bones of The Terror were finally broken. Encroaching ice claimed this stubborn blight on a wild frozen sea without remorse. Those still seeking its shelter were doomed to walk stark glacial landscapes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[5680],"class_list":["post-122506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2022prompt23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122506","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\/4348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122526,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122506\/revisions\/122526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}