{"id":135778,"date":"2023-09-02T19:16:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135778"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:16:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:16:45","slug":"hour-nine-elk-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-nine-elk-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Nine &#8220;Elk Eyes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ripped the elbow of my jacket<\/p>\n<p>on a broken lightbulb<\/p>\n<p>hidden in a bucket<\/p>\n<p>that smelled vaguely of cinnamon.<\/p>\n<p>It was in that carport<\/p>\n<p>down by the bayou,<\/p>\n<p>where the mural of the dying elk,<\/p>\n<p>blood the color of beets,<\/p>\n<p>stares as if pleading with me,<\/p>\n<p>in his death tremor,<\/p>\n<p>to be set free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ripped the elbow of my jacket on a broken lightbulb hidden in a bucket that smelled vaguely of cinnamon. It was in that carport down by the bayou, where the mural of the dying elk, blood the color of beets, stares as if pleading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135778","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\/5269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135871,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135778\/revisions\/135871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}