{"id":134835,"date":"2023-09-02T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134835"},"modified":"2023-10-12T16:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T20:35:18","slug":"prompt-9-what-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-9-what-is-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #10 &#8211; What is Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Love?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You say my name and<\/p>\n<p>my heart spins wildly<\/p>\n<p>out of control, but don&#8217;t flatter yourself. That<\/p>\n<p>could mean anything.<\/p>\n<p>What is love but a<\/p>\n<p>series of cheap parlor tricks:<\/p>\n<p>A saw that cuts me in half<\/p>\n<p>and yet I remain whole.<\/p>\n<p>A word wrapped in chains and<\/p>\n<p>thrown into the pool, the key<\/p>\n<p>in your hand and yet<\/p>\n<p>somehow unlocks and<\/p>\n<p>I swim to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>A knife thrown from<\/p>\n<p>50 paces that<\/p>\n<p>pierces but never kills.<\/p>\n<p>A 5 of clubs pulled from the deck<\/p>\n<p>again and again even<\/p>\n<p>as I scrutinize your hands and<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t see anything up your sleeve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Love? You say my name and my heart spins wildly out of control, but don&#8217;t flatter yourself. That could mean anything. What is love but a series of cheap parlor tricks: A saw that cuts me in half and yet I remain whole&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134835","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\/5285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145737,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134835\/revisions\/145737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}