{"id":22732,"date":"2016-08-13T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22732"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:12:36","slug":"monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a monster in the mist<\/p>\n<p>Dark shape looming<\/p>\n<p>Arms reaching<\/p>\n<p>Teeth snapping<\/p>\n<p>Coming through our world from lands unknown<\/p>\n<p>Roots in the ground<\/p>\n<p>Leaves on it&#8217;s arms<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a tree<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a monster in the closet<\/p>\n<p>Shifting in the dark<\/p>\n<p>Eyes glowing<\/p>\n<p>Throat growling<\/p>\n<p>Slipping through the back doors in dimensions<\/p>\n<p>Buttons<\/p>\n<p>Air vents<\/p>\n<p>Just a coat and an air current<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a monster in my head<\/p>\n<p>Whispering softly to me<\/p>\n<p>Dreams of blades and blood<\/p>\n<p>Wishes for my own destruction<\/p>\n<p>Smiles at me<\/p>\n<p>With familiar eyes<\/p>\n<p>No easy explanation for this one<\/p>\n<p>It really is a monster<\/p>\n<p>And there is no escape<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a monster in the mist Dark shape looming Arms reaching Teeth snapping Coming through our world from lands unknown Roots in the ground Leaves on it&#8217;s arms It&#8217;s just a tree &nbsp; There&#8217;s a monster in the closet Shifting in the dark Eyes glowing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":867,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732","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\/867"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22801,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732\/revisions\/22801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}