{"id":129018,"date":"2023-09-02T11:35:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129018"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:35:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:35:37","slug":"target-hour-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/target-hour-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Target, Hour Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Target<\/p>\n<p>Fish in a tank, suspended in murky depths,<br \/>\nfour plastic walls separating<br \/>\nare an illusion, as sharks circle<br \/>\nand salivate, just beyond sight.<\/p>\n<p>Cat in a box, canary in a cage,<br \/>\nrat in a maze, all secure<br \/>\nand safe, as safe as they<br \/>\nwish to believe.<\/p>\n<p>Self centered, self satisfied, central, smug,<br \/>\nshe sits at ease, a queen on her throne,<br \/>\ndirector of all surrounding action but above,<br \/>\ncenter stage to an audience of none.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target Fish in a tank, suspended in murky depths, four plastic walls separating are an illusion, as sharks circle and salivate, just beyond sight. Cat in a box, canary in a cage, rat in a maze, all secure and safe, as safe as they wish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129018","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=129018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129090,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129018\/revisions\/129090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}