{"id":138285,"date":"2023-09-02T22:47:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138285"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:47:56","slug":"tick-tock-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/tick-tock-13\/","title":{"rendered":"TICK TOCK – #13"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a truth serum<\/em><\/p>\n

I reassure in the first instance<\/p>\n

You won\u2019t make me quack like a duck?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You inevitably reply<\/p>\n

Only if you want to<\/em><\/p>\n

I smile<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Nor will I get you to eat an onion<\/em><\/p>\n

thinking it\u2019s an apple<\/em><\/p>\n

But this still doesn\u2019t satisfy<\/p>\n

What if I\u2019m not able to go under?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under what?<\/em><\/p>\n

I reply<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Do you use a pendulum or watch?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Would you like me to?<\/em><\/p>\n

My tone even my eye contact unwavering<\/p>\n

You breathe, you close your eyes<\/p>\n

I hypnotise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  It\u2019s not a truth serum I reassure in the first instance You won\u2019t make me quack like a duck? You inevitably reply Only if you want to I smile   Nor will I get you to eat an onion thinking it\u2019s an apple But…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[5445,119,285,6203,6204],"class_list":["post-138285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-apple","tag-fear","tag-funny","tag-hypnosis","tag-onion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138285","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\/1278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138349,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138285\/revisions\/138349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}