{"id":139844,"date":"2023-09-03T02:32:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139844"},"modified":"2023-09-03T02:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:32:34","slug":"im-a-monster-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/im-a-monster-18\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a monster #18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spectres of monsters past<br \/>\nShades of Jabberwok<br \/>\nAnd Babaduk<br \/>\nVisit me in the wee hours<br \/>\nOld monsters spent and tired<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ve long since lost<br \/>\nTheir frightening power<br \/>\nBut another monster rises up<br \/>\nFrom the depths to take their place<br \/>\nRapacious and malevolent<br \/>\nWith distilled malice and ill intent<br \/>\nAnd an all too familiar face.<br \/>\nI can only see him by candlelight<br \/>\nIn the mirror past midnight<br \/>\nI&#8217;m deathly afraid of who he might be<br \/>\nBecause his face looks just like me<br \/>\nHe whispers never to fear monsters again<br \/>\nThose monsters who look just like men<br \/>\nAnd tells me a secret as if with glee<br \/>\nThe most frightening thing in all the dark<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t him, it&#8217;s me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spectres of monsters past Shades of Jabberwok And Babaduk Visit me in the wee hours Old monsters spent and tired Who&#8217;ve long since lost Their frightening power But another monster rises up From the depths to take their place Rapacious and malevolent With distilled malice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139844","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\/4830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140241,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139844\/revisions\/140241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}