{"id":12908,"date":"2015-06-14T03:04:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12908"},"modified":"2015-06-14T03:04:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:04:52","slug":"wild-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/wild-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You see of me what I want.<br \/>\nLittle beast of camoflague,<br \/>\ndark of pelt and sleek as rain.<br \/>\nForest-eyes that peer<br \/>\nthrough branches of distrust,<br \/>\nwary, curious, silent.<br \/>\nWhat words flow out of me,<br \/>\nsoft and silent as sighs<br \/>\non the breath of need.<br \/>\nI dip my head to<br \/>\nthe cool drink of knowledge,<br \/>\ndraw deep and within.<br \/>\nMy back arches against the sun,<br \/>\nmy voice a cry to the moon,<br \/>\nmy hands and feet<br \/>\nso very lightly step,<br \/>\nwild beast-woman caged within.<br \/>\nI cry against the chains,<br \/>\ntear at the bars,<br \/>\ngrowl and whine and howl<br \/>\nfor lack of my own wild woods,<br \/>\nnow culled, now tamed.<br \/>\nBite the hand that feeds me,<br \/>\nstruggle to run free.<br \/>\nLittle wild one biting back,<br \/>\ntearing back a piece of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see of me what I want. Little beast of camoflague, dark of pelt and sleek as rain. Forest-eyes that peer through branches of distrust, wary, curious, silent. What words flow out of me, soft and silent as sighs on the breath of need. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12908","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12927,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12908\/revisions\/12927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}