{"id":18150,"date":"2016-08-13T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18150"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:03:15","slug":"hour-1-marionette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-1-marionette\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1: Marionette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marionette, be merry!<\/p>\n<p>I give the strings a yank<\/p>\n<p>Awake!<\/p>\n<p>Feel the strings control you<\/p>\n<p>Feel them guide you<\/p>\n<p>Feel them bind you<\/p>\n<p>But smile, marionette<\/p>\n<p>Be merry!<\/p>\n<p>Dance a little jig<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stand up, marionette!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll make you<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re nothing but a toy<\/p>\n<p>Feel the strings enfold you<\/p>\n<p>Hold you<\/p>\n<p>And as I lift you<\/p>\n<p>Feel them hang you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But smile, marionette<\/p>\n<p>Be merry!<\/p>\n<p>Let us play pretend<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Make yourself a liar<\/p>\n<p>Choke!<\/p>\n<p>Keep us entertained<\/p>\n<p>Be everybody\u2019s plaything<\/p>\n<p>Chafe!<\/p>\n<p>Give us pleasure for your pain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marionette, be merry!<\/p>\n<p>I give the strings a jerk<\/p>\n<p>Alert!<\/p>\n<p>Feel the strings instruct you<\/p>\n<p>Feel them force you<\/p>\n<p>Feel them stop you<\/p>\n<p>But smile marionette<\/p>\n<p>Be merry!<\/p>\n<p>Do a pirouette<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fall down, marionette<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll let you<\/p>\n<p>Your spine is but a twine<\/p>\n<p>Feel the strings release you<\/p>\n<p>Cease you<\/p>\n<p>And as I drag you<\/p>\n<p>Feel them stretch you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But smile, marionette<\/p>\n<p>Be merry!<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll have roses at the end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Marionette, be merry! I give the strings a yank Awake! Feel the strings control you Feel them guide you Feel them bind you But smile, marionette Be merry! Dance a little jig &nbsp; Stand up, marionette! I\u2019ll make you You\u2019re nothing but a toy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18150","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\/635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18202,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18150\/revisions\/18202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}