{"id":132216,"date":"2023-09-02T14:57:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132216"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:57:46","slug":"silent-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/silent-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We walked by a statue<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">every day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for a hundred days<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">never knowing what lay inside<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We walked over a bridge<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">every day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for two hundred days<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">never knowing what lay beneath<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We walked under a tree<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">every day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for three hundred days<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">never knowing what it had seen<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eyes in the statue never moving<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weapon in the water never stirring<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tree in the grass never telling<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How one night a girl died<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We walked by a statue every day for a hundred days never knowing what lay inside &nbsp; We walked over a bridge every day for two hundred days never knowing what lay beneath &nbsp; We walked under a tree every day for three hundred days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,441],"tags":[51,2554,48,2155],"class_list":["post-132216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-death","tag-mystery","tag-time","tag-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132216","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132233,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132216\/revisions\/132233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}