{"id":130564,"date":"2023-09-02T13:06:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130564"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:06:31","slug":"5-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/5-creepy\/","title":{"rendered":"5. Creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was in the sink.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A tiny black cricket.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Just a baby, really.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

hate<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

crickets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, I got a napkin.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And folded it around him.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To take him outside.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

he<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

hates<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

outside.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, into the air he flew.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Not on the floor.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Not in the sink.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nowhere <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

to <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

be<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

found.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, I sit here typing<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Itching, twitching,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Wondering if<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

he <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

went<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

down<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

my shirt.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was in the sink. A tiny black cricket. Just a baby, really. But, I hate crickets. So, I got a napkin. And folded it around him. To take him outside. But, he hates outside. So, into the air he flew. Not on the floor….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130564","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130575,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130564\/revisions\/130575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}