{"id":2054,"date":"2014-08-23T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2014-08-23T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:00:30","slug":"the-raging-and-consuming-war-of-the-poetics-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-raging-and-consuming-war-of-the-poetics-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raging and Consuming War of The Poetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part VI<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s never over,<br \/>\nconflict \u2013<br \/>\nthe war fought between mind<br \/>\nand action;<br \/>\na bird flutters helplessly<br \/>\nnear a puddle,<br \/>\nshould he drink before he tries to fly,<br \/>\nor die?<br \/>\nshould he release his spirit to the open sky?<\/p>\n<p>he dips his beak into the puddle,<br \/>\nthe little pond of water,<br \/>\na saucer of water \u2013<br \/>\na cat now lurks near his sanctuary,<br \/>\nsuddenly his weakness becomes his final battle;<br \/>\nthe feline approaches \u2013 crouched \u2013 slowly stepping<br \/>\ntowards the bird;<br \/>\nthe consuming and raging war of the poetics,<br \/>\nproliferates\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Michellia D. Wilson 8\/23\/14 1:00 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part VI It\u2019s never over, conflict \u2013 the war fought between mind and action; a bird flutters helplessly near a puddle, should he drink before he tries to fly, or die? should he release his spirit to the open sky? he dips his beak into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}