{"id":13833,"date":"2015-06-14T07:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T11:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=13833"},"modified":"2015-06-14T07:01:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T11:01:38","slug":"poem-17-in-case-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-17-in-case-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 17:  In Case of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please save Virginia. You know-<br \/>\nVirginia Woolf. She\u2019s been with me<br \/>\nsince 1984, rising out of doom,<br \/>\ngiven new life by some sculptor\u2019s<br \/>\nknowing hands. The shape of her hair,<br \/>\nthe contours of her face, just right<br \/>\nin some kind of mottled metal.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know if she would burn,<br \/>\nbut I wouldn\u2019t want to take the chance,<br \/>\nafter all she\u2019s been through, drowning<br \/>\nherself, being used as fodder by Edward<br \/>\nAlbee and countless others. No, I am not<br \/>\nthe least bit afraid of her or whether she<br \/>\nmight do it again, might fling herself<br \/>\ninto the fire if she got half the chance.<br \/>\nNot on my watch, dear. I love your writing<br \/>\ntoo much to lose you now. So come on,<br \/>\nget in the car. We are still in the race.<br \/>\nWherever I roam, you will always be there,<br \/>\ngiving my rooms some style, some grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please save Virginia. You know- Virginia Woolf. She\u2019s been with me since 1984, rising out of doom, given new life by some sculptor\u2019s knowing hands. The shape of her hair, the contours of her face, just right in some kind of mottled metal. I don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13853,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833\/revisions\/13853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}