{"id":12277,"date":"2015-06-14T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12277"},"modified":"2015-06-14T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:15:00","slug":"sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacrifice<br \/>\nVirginia Carraway Stark<\/p>\n<p>Down they pushed him<br \/>\nHis head under the soil<br \/>\nAnd under the wheels<br \/>\nOf the combine harvester<br \/>\nBlood for the crops<br \/>\nHis young face<br \/>\nOnce full of smiles<br \/>\nand his young body<br \/>\nWith his knocked knees<br \/>\nAnd a scrape that<br \/>\nHe tried not to cry over<br \/>\nBut he still<br \/>\nCried a little<br \/>\nEven though he made his voice brave<br \/>\nA sacrifice was demanded<br \/>\nTo make the corn grow tall<br \/>\nHis body the offering<br \/>\nBloody blades<br \/>\nTurn the soil <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacrifice Virginia Carraway Stark Down they pushed him His head under the soil And under the wheels Of the combine harvester Blood for the crops His young face Once full of smiles and his young body With his knocked knees And a scrape that He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[354,51,910,911,53,52],"class_list":["post-12277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-best-poems-2015","tag-death","tag-harvest","tag-ritual","tag-starklight-press","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12281,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions\/12281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}