{"id":142809,"date":"2023-09-03T07:18:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=142809"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:18:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:18:26","slug":"hour-18-toys-in-the-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-18-toys-in-the-attic\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18 &#8211; Toys in the Attic"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>In the attic there is a door\r\nold and wooden\r\nwith cracks and gaps\r\nleave alone cautioned the woman\r\n\r\nBut curious minds need to explore\r\nwondering what thing must be avoided\r\nlistening with ear to the door\r\nscreams and scratches could be heard<\/pre>\n<pre>Bolting away from that place\r\nmind wandering about the things\r\nthat may be murdering in that space\r\nquickly departing down the stairs<\/pre>\n<pre>Days went by and waiting no more\r\nreturned to the attic\r\nwith the old wooden door\r\ntrembling hands upon the handle<\/pre>\n<pre>With door opened just a sliver\r\nscreams and scratches and flashing lights\r\nthe curious child started to shiver\r\nwords of the woman resounded<\/pre>\n<pre>A year passed and the child grew older\r\nremembered the attic with the old wooden door\r\nreturned to that space now he was bolder\r\nand threw open the door with bat in hand<\/pre>\n<pre>Covered in dust he found the culprit\r\nan old wooden chair rocking against a child\u2019s toy\r\nblown by breeze flying through the attic\r\ndisturbing the treasures saved for the boy<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the attic there is a door old and wooden with cracks and gaps leave alone cautioned the woman But curious minds need to explore wondering what thing must be avoided listening with ear to the door screams and scratches could be heard Bolting away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142809","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\/3614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142839,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142809\/revisions\/142839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}