{"id":21294,"date":"2016-08-13T14:57:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21294"},"modified":"2016-08-13T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:32:20","slug":"prompt-4-the-orphan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/prompt-4-the-orphan\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 4: The Orphan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dt-archive-post-content\">\n<p>Fixing his motorcycle, dormant all winter<\/p>\n<p>He found a nest of mice<\/p>\n<p>Huddled together in the tailpipe<\/p>\n<p>The fearful mother fled,\u00a0abandoning<\/p>\n<p>Her doomed baby, eyes shut,\u00a0helpless.<\/p>\n<p>How could she? It&#8217;s instinct. Save yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The baby&#8217;s mouth opened and closed, imploring<\/p>\n<p>The world for \u00a0sustenance, comfort<\/p>\n<p>Why should I pity this vermin who, grown, would only<\/p>\n<p>Plague me later? But dutifully, with eyedropper, I fed it<\/p>\n<p>Formula, the false milk of man<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, it died.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing his motorcycle, dormant all winter He found a nest of mice Huddled together in the tailpipe The fearful mother fled,\u00a0abandoning Her doomed baby, eyes shut,\u00a0helpless. How could she? It&#8217;s instinct. Save yourself. The baby&#8217;s mouth opened and closed, imploring The world for \u00a0sustenance, comfort&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":771,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[1416],"class_list":["post-21294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-narrative-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21294","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\/771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21436,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21294\/revisions\/21436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}