{"id":20320,"date":"2016-08-13T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20320"},"modified":"2016-08-16T00:04:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T04:04:27","slug":"night-watch-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/night-watch-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Watch (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Night Watch<\/p>\n<p><em>for Grandpa Eddie<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Granddad\u2019s slippers slap the hardwoods with purpose,<br \/>\nRising and falling like a beaver\u2019s tail<br \/>\nHe walks the halls, opening and closing doors<br \/>\nCounts heads in bed<br \/>\nWatches chests rise and fall<\/p>\n<p>Danger comes in the middle of the night<br \/>\nSneaks up the back stairs<br \/>\nSo he sits at his kitchen table in the North<br \/>\nClad in a nightshirt and work pants and blackness<br \/>\nWith a shotgun on his lap<br \/>\nRemembering the terror of the South<\/p>\n<p>Ears pricked,<br \/>\nDark orbs swaying like the swoosh of a cat\u2019s tail<br \/>\nArgus-eyed<\/p>\n<p>(c) Davita Joie 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night Watch for Grandpa Eddie Granddad\u2019s slippers slap the hardwoods with purpose, Rising and falling like a beaver\u2019s tail He walks the halls, opening and closing doors Counts heads in bed Watches chests rise and fall Danger comes in the middle of the night Sneaks&#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-20320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320","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=20320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29425,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320\/revisions\/29425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}