{"id":139312,"date":"2023-09-03T02:46:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139312"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:07:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:07:33","slug":"the-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was back<br \/>\nThe crow with the single<br \/>\nPale blue eye<br \/>\nPerched on Mrs. Haversham&#8217;s fence<br \/>\nStaring intently<br \/>\nWhere it came from<br \/>\nNo one really knew<br \/>\nBut every day it came<br \/>\nPerching, staring<br \/>\nImmovable<\/p>\n<p>They tried to scare it off<br \/>\nShoo it away<br \/>\nBut nothing they did<br \/>\nSeemed to have any affect<\/p>\n<p>Time passed and soon the crow<br \/>\nMelted into the background<br \/>\nNo longer noticed<br \/>\nBy the passersby<br \/>\nNo longer a mystery<br \/>\nOr point of concern<br \/>\nJust another piece of scenery<br \/>\nTo be ignored<\/p>\n<p>The day Mrs. Haversham<br \/>\nPassed from this world to the next<br \/>\nRumors floated around<br \/>\nAbout what really happened<br \/>\nSome said it was natural causes<br \/>\nSome said it was suicide<br \/>\nSome blamed her greedy nephew<br \/>\nSome noticed the crow<br \/>\nNever returned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was back The crow with the single Pale blue eye Perched on Mrs. Haversham&#8217;s fence Staring intently Where it came from No one really knew But every day it came Perching, staring Immovable They tried to scare it off Shoo it away But nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139312","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\/1102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140322,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139312\/revisions\/140322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}