{"id":135868,"date":"2023-09-02T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135868"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:24:11","slug":"scaredy-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scaredy-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaredy Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I always do this to myself?<\/p>\n<p>Scary movie onscreen,<\/p>\n<p>my pick for the evening,<\/p>\n<p>but I\u2019m the one hiding my face<\/p>\n<p>and closing my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time it isn\u2019t the images that bother me,<\/p>\n<p>but the noise.<\/p>\n<p>Surely some of that is exaggerated,<\/p>\n<p>but still,<\/p>\n<p>the sounds of gore give me goosebumps<\/p>\n<p>more than anything.<\/p>\n<p>I am always a sucker for a good thriller,<\/p>\n<p>but again I ask &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>why do I always do this to myself?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a scaredy cat who loves to be scared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I always do this to myself? Scary movie onscreen, my pick for the evening, but I\u2019m the one hiding my face and closing my eyes. Most of the time it isn\u2019t the images that bother me, but the noise. Surely some of that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,13],"tags":[6136],"class_list":["post-135868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-scaredycat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135868","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\/1224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136776,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135868\/revisions\/136776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}