{"id":132726,"date":"2023-09-02T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132726"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:09:03","slug":"the-mysterious-mr-knox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-mysterious-mr-knox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Mr. Knox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first rule of Detection Club: <strong>play fair<\/strong><br \/>\nRather, the zeroth rule because rule one<br \/>\nIs introduce the criminal early on<br \/>\nAnd keep their thoughts off-air<\/p>\n<p>The next three rules restrain the gothic trend<br \/>\nNo ghosts, no made-up drugs, no high-tech tools<br \/>\nNo more than one mysterious hidden room<br \/>\nTo get you to &#8220;the end&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fifth rule reads as racist in our day,<br \/>\nThough written to confront it at the time.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s say: Do not use &#8220;foreign&#8221; to mean &#8220;crime&#8221;<br \/>\nOr &#8220;danger&#8221; in that way.<\/p>\n<p>Rule six rules out the lucky guess to win<br \/>\nRules seven, eight and nine forbid the ruse<br \/>\nOf ever purposefully withholding clues.<br \/>\nAnd ten: no secret twins.<\/p>\n<p>So if you swear detection tales to tell,<br \/>\nShall Knox, GK, and Christie wish you well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first rule of Detection Club: play fair Rather, the zeroth rule because rule one Is introduce the criminal early on And keep their thoughts off-air The next three rules restrain the gothic trend No ghosts, no made-up drugs, no high-tech tools No more than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[5929],"class_list":["post-132726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023hour5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132726","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133241,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132726\/revisions\/133241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}