{"id":131498,"date":"2023-09-02T14:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131498"},"modified":"2023-09-03T02:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:08:17","slug":"whatisametaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/whatisametaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Is To Be A Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cw: none<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, of course:<br \/>\nthe canary is a metaphor.<br \/>\nIt is not a real thing, it is illusion,<br \/>\nand it rankles at the fact that<br \/>\nit is not real.<br \/>\nIt is a tool, a device,<br \/>\na thing to be used &#8211;<br \/>\neven when it is voiceless, its feathers ripped out,<br \/>\nwhen it bleeds ink instead of blood<br \/>\nand feasts only on misused paper,<br \/>\nit is still a tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cw: none The problem is, of course: the canary is a metaphor. It is not a real thing, it is illusion, and it rankles at the fact that it is not real. It is a tool, a device, a thing to be used &#8211; even&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131498","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\/4005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131536,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131498\/revisions\/131536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}