{"id":19610,"date":"2016-08-13T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19610"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:27:11","slug":"on-a-quest-to-kill-my-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/on-a-quest-to-kill-my-innocence\/","title":{"rendered":"On a Quest to Kill My Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our journey begins with a child in white.<\/p>\n<p>His hair is dark, his eyes are bright,<\/p>\n<p>A happy soul, a heart filled with light.<\/p>\n<p>On the\u00a0eve of his travel he fills up a pouch<\/p>\n<p>Slings it over his shoulder, the weight makes him slouch<\/p>\n<p>With him, an apple, some cheese, and a sword, as well as a coin purse, a blanket, and cord<\/p>\n<p>He knows not where he&#8217;s going, just that it is now When<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s time to leave now, he says goodbye to the hen.<\/p>\n<p>Over the hills, past\u00a0the cossack&#8217;s row, out past the river where the cathewhumps grow<\/p>\n<p>He sets out to slay a magnificent beast, knowing if he does he&#8217;ll recieve a magnificent feast.<\/p>\n<p>At last in a cave, the boy tries to be brave for there a monster lies and there its child cries.<\/p>\n<p>With a\u00a0<em>schnik<\/em> and\u00a0<em>thwack!\u00a0<\/em>the deed is done, the beasts both dead, and the child has won?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our journey begins with a child in white. His hair is dark, his eyes are bright, A happy soul, a heart filled with light. On the\u00a0eve of his travel he fills up a pouch Slings it over his shoulder, the weight makes him slouch With&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19610","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\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19830,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19610\/revisions\/19830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}