{"id":134458,"date":"2023-09-02T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134458"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:38:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:38:02","slug":"reprieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/reprieve\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprieve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reprieve<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A bull elk, large rack<\/p>\n<p>on his head, stands<\/p>\n<p>alone in the bayou.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hunter, in his beet red jacket,<\/p>\n<p>stands in his carport on the hill<\/p>\n<p>above the bayou.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He chews on a cinnamon stick,<\/p>\n<p>its peppery flavor calms<\/p>\n<p>the tremor in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He lifts the rifle to take aim<\/p>\n<p>But knocks the tin bucket<\/p>\n<p>That hangs by his elbow to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lone lightbulb stored there<\/p>\n<p>falls to the cement floor with a crash.<\/p>\n<p>The elk lives to walk another day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprieve &nbsp; A bull elk, large rack on his head, stands alone in the bayou. &nbsp; The hunter, in his beet red jacket, stands in his carport on the hill above the bayou. &nbsp; He chews on a cinnamon stick, its peppery flavor calms the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134458","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\/2886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134462,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134458\/revisions\/134462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}