{"id":22012,"date":"2016-08-13T17:03:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22012"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:03:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:03:55","slug":"8-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/8-4\/","title":{"rendered":"8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin was a shape-shifter. He turned over stones<br \/>\nand there was writing underneath. I turned one once<br \/>\nand found blind maggots writhing. When his<\/p>\n<p>mother asked me to look for him, Jeff came too<br \/>\nin case Austin\u2019s body had turned blue and wooden<br \/>\nbecause of overdose. Jeff was recovering from heroin<\/p>\n<p>as if that were protection. But Austin answered<br \/>\nat the first place we went and said his phone<br \/>\nwas dead. That was the last time I saw him.<\/p>\n<p>An accidental betrayal. Unforgivable. I had proven<br \/>\nthat he was findable, and after this he wasn\u2019t found,<br \/>\nexcept a call sometimes from jail, ever again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin was a shape-shifter. He turned over stones and there was writing underneath. I turned one once and found blind maggots writhing. When his mother asked me to look for him, Jeff came too in case Austin\u2019s body had turned blue and wooden because of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22012","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22703,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22012\/revisions\/22703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}