{"id":12394,"date":"2015-06-14T00:49:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12394"},"modified":"2015-06-14T00:49:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:49:12","slug":"mermaid-sestina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/mermaid-sestina\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid Sestina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a quest for Love<br \/>\nswam the Mermaid<br \/>\nWith hair of Curl<br \/>\nAnd eyes the color of the Moon<br \/>\nShe avoided the Sun<br \/>\nAnd frolicked in the Ocean<\/p>\n<p>Deep in the Ocean<br \/>\nSwam the Mermaid in search of Love<br \/>\nShe avoided the Sun<br \/>\nSo men would not catch the Mermaid<br \/>\nAs she danced by the light of the Moon<br \/>\nAnd stroked her hair of Curl<br \/>\nThe mermaid played her hair of Curl<br \/>\nAs she frolicked by the Ocean<br \/>\nGuarded by the light of the Moon<br \/>\nOn a fruitless quest for Love<br \/>\nDanced the Mermaid<br \/>\nAs she hid from the Sun<br \/>\nThe Mermaid avoided the Sun<br \/>\nAnd stroked her hair of Curl<br \/>\nIn her element was the Mermaid<br \/>\nAs she frolicked in the Ocean<br \/>\nIn search of Love<br \/>\nUnder a silver Moon<br \/>\nBeneath a silver Moon<br \/>\nAnd away from a golden Sun<br \/>\nDanced the mermaid in search of Love<br \/>\nShe stroked her hair of Curl<br \/>\nAs she cavorted in the Ocean<br \/>\nDanced the Mermaid<br \/>\nLo, there lies the Mermaid<br \/>\nUnderneath a silver Moon<br \/>\nReturned to her Ocean<br \/>\nShe came too close to the golden Sun<br \/>\nNo more to stroke her hair of Curl<br \/>\nNo more to search for Love<br \/>\nThe Mermaid could live only if she avoided the golden Sun<br \/>\nAnd danced under a silver Moon while she stroked her hair of Curl<br \/>\nFor only in the Ocean, not outside it, could she find Love<\/p>\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a quest for Love swam the Mermaid With hair of Curl And eyes the color of the Moon She avoided the Sun And frolicked in the Ocean Deep in the Ocean Swam the Mermaid in search of Love She avoided the Sun So men&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394","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\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12407,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394\/revisions\/12407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}