{"id":134403,"date":"2023-09-02T17:43:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134403"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:48:53","slug":"the-old-hunter-hour-eight-list-of-ten-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-old-hunter-hour-eight-list-of-ten-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Hunter, Hour Nine, List of Ten Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Hunter<\/p>\n<p>The hunter peeled the cinnamon-skinned hide<br \/>\naway from its flesh before parsing the parts<br \/>\namong his containers, the beet red blood<br \/>\npooling and freezing into the frigid earth.<\/p>\n<p>Yellow jacket wasps crackled angrily<br \/>\nlike electric shocks around the containers of meat,<br \/>\nand an oily bucket of entrails shimmied<br \/>\nas a tremor from palsied hands shook his elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the bayou he called home at last,<br \/>\nthe hunter unloaded his kill.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d traveled far for the elk,<br \/>\nall the way north to Alaska&#8217;s tundra.<\/p>\n<p>The naked, dangling lightbulb<br \/>\noverhanging his open carport<br \/>\nlit the winding path to his tiny shack,<br \/>\na return to the early fall warmth of home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Hunter The hunter peeled the cinnamon-skinned hide away from its flesh before parsing the parts among his containers, the beet red blood pooling and freezing into the frigid earth. Yellow jacket wasps crackled angrily like electric shocks around the containers of meat, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134403","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134617,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134403\/revisions\/134617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}