{"id":22625,"date":"2016-08-13T16:56:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22625"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:56:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:56:52","slug":"clandestine-a-pantoum-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/clandestine-a-pantoum-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Clandestine [A Pantoum] (7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: black\">Clandestine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: black\">He hid in the closet<br \/>\nWhile they threw the mother of his children from the fourth floor window<br \/>\nFor his crimes<br \/>\nShe had begged for his life once before, pleaded for the drug dealer who fathered her daughters <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 13.5pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: black\">While they threw the mother of his children from the fourth floor window<br \/>\nHe cowered in a haze of coke or heroin or weed<br \/>\nShe had begged for his life once before, pleaded for the dealer of drugs who fathered her daughters<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: black\">He cowered in a haze of coke or heroin or weed<br \/>\nHe hid in the closet, silent<br \/>\nHer body, not made for flight, shattered on the pavement below,<br \/>\nbecause of his wrongdoing<br \/>\nFor Willie&#8217;s crimes, For Willie&#8217;s crimes, For Willie&#8217;s crimes<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(c) Davita Joie 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clandestine He hid in the closet While they threw the mother of his children from the fourth floor window For his crimes She had begged for his life once before, pleaded for the drug dealer who fathered her daughters While they threw the mother of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22625","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22642,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22625\/revisions\/22642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}