{"id":132757,"date":"2023-09-02T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132757"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:30:59","slug":"over-the-edge-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/over-the-edge-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Over the edge #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a walk to the edge<br \/>\nTheyd told me wasn&#8217;t there<br \/>\nThere was a meadow<br \/>\nWild flowers and long grass<br \/>\nMade the trek at least bareable<br \/>\nThough the sun was strong<br \/>\nAnd in my eyes so much<br \/>\nI almost walked straight over<br \/>\nStumbling back my heart raced<br \/>\nFrom the shock of near death<br \/>\nAnd the shock of what I saw<br \/>\nFour elephants<br \/>\nGargantuan beyond measure<br \/>\nYet dwarfed by the turtle<br \/>\nOn which they too rode<br \/>\nA voice came from behind me<br \/>\n&#8216;So now you know&#8217; it said<br \/>\nI turned and realisation dawned<br \/>\nIt was probably the fedora<br \/>\n&#8216;Terry&#8217; I smiled<br \/>\n&#8216;Sir Terry&#8217; he said , a twinkle in his eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a walk to the edge Theyd told me wasn&#8217;t there There was a meadow Wild flowers and long grass Made the trek at least bareable Though the sun was strong And in my eyes so much I almost walked straight over Stumbling back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757","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\/4830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132773,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757\/revisions\/132773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}