{"id":18505,"date":"2016-08-13T10:29:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18505"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:31:42","slug":"carnival-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/carnival-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Carnival<\/p>\n<p>Hurry, Hurry<\/p>\n<p>Step right up<br \/>\nWhat you see before you is Real<\/p>\n<p>Lean in<br \/>\nHave no fear<br \/>\nThe stench of death becomes<br \/>\nFamiliar<\/p>\n<p>Vultures overhead, circling<br \/>\nFear not<br \/>\nThey come only for rotting flesh<br \/>\nAnd yours, while putrid,<br \/>\nLives still<\/p>\n<p>See the chalk outline<br \/>\nBroken, twisted ruins<br \/>\nFaces carved from grief<\/p>\n<p>Lean in<br \/>\nLick the salted popcorn tears<\/p>\n<p>Pools of red run and run<br \/>\nSorrow seeps into the ground<br \/>\nAnd screams<\/p>\n<p>Lean in<br \/>\nDip your finger in the red river<br \/>\nCandle apple sticky sweet<br \/>\nStroke the cotton candy hair<\/p>\n<p>Toothless Lions snarl and circle<br \/>\nShake a long-gone mane<br \/>\nWisps around a shrunken head<br \/>\nNo sound<br \/>\nNo roar<\/p>\n<p>Elephants stand upon a<br \/>\nPile of scattered bones<br \/>\nUsing their trunks like whips<br \/>\nRemembering<br \/>\nMourning<br \/>\nMarching<\/p>\n<p>Tent by tent we move<br \/>\nBirds of prey, on land<br \/>\nLooking for the next<br \/>\nDead thing to feed on<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(c) Davita Joie 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Carnival Hurry, Hurry Step right up What you see before you is Real Lean in Have no fear The stench of death becomes Familiar Vultures overhead, circling Fear not They come only for rotting flesh And yours, while putrid, Lives still See the chalk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18505","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18595,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18505\/revisions\/18595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}