{"id":21487,"date":"2016-08-13T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21487"},"modified":"2016-08-14T05:42:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:42:50","slug":"2016-marathon-hour-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/2016-marathon-hour-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 07 &#8211; Angst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>The Robot&#8217;s Lament<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I had waited more than a century,<br \/>\nAfter the ancient ones had taken flight.<br \/>\nKeeping a quiet vigil, patiently<br \/>\nI stood there through bright days and starry nights.<\/p>\n<p>The creature came, its ship awash with lights.<br \/>\nSo small it was, and to me, quite unknown;<br \/>\nAlthough it had regarded me with fright,<br \/>\nAt last it seemed I would not be alone!<\/p>\n<p>Then I did err, for which I can\u2019t atone &#8211;<br \/>\nIn my great haste, I failed to understand<br \/>\nThis alien was made of flesh and bone.<br \/>\nI picked it up, and held it in my hand,<\/p>\n<p>I found my probing finger was too strong<br \/>\nAnd now my bloodstained hand proves I was wrong.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Robot&#8217;s Lament I had waited more than a century, After the ancient ones had taken flight. Keeping a quiet vigil, patiently I stood there through bright days and starry nights. The creature came, its ship awash with lights. So small it was, and to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[680,1566],"class_list":["post-21487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-angst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487","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\/839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27719,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions\/27719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}