{"id":22126,"date":"2016-08-13T17:04:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22126"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:21:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:21:22","slug":"the-bat-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-bat-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BAT TREE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>you never saw such a wretched tree,<br \/>\nstanding in the middle of a beautiful, full ivy patch;<br \/>\nthe tree was dead,<br \/>\nbut had eerie life nesting inside it\u2019s hollow;<br \/>\nquiet during the day in it\u2019s spooky stance,<br \/>\ninside hangs dozens of sleeping fruit bats.<\/p>\n<p>Dusk changed the dynamic and sleepy bats<br \/>\nturned into a plethora of squeaking, hovering<br \/>\nwinged creatures that scared my sisters and me,<br \/>\nmy older sister told me that if a bat pooped<br \/>\non my head, I would go bald,<br \/>\nshe had me terrified as I ran around<br \/>\nin the darkness, dodging potential hair loss.<\/p>\n<p>Michellia D. Wilson 8\/13\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you never saw such a wretched tree, standing in the middle of a beautiful, full ivy patch; the tree was dead, but had eerie life nesting inside it\u2019s hollow; quiet during the day in it\u2019s spooky stance, inside hangs dozens of sleeping fruit bats. Dusk&#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-22126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126","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=22126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22719,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126\/revisions\/22719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}