{"id":23925,"date":"2016-08-13T19:52:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23925"},"modified":"2016-08-13T23:40:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:40:01","slug":"1224-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/1224-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/24 burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a dollar store match box, half price because<br \/>\nthe box had a tear in the side<br \/>\nit had lost a few matches and I did<br \/>\nabout anything to save a dollar.<br \/>\nI knew the first time I pulled a match out of Creased cardboard that<br \/>\nI had bought an extra burn.<\/p>\n<p>The first stick, she was humble<br \/>\nthe Red of her face tickled against the grain of<br \/>\nsuch a flimsy box.<br \/>\nI used her to light a candle,<br \/>\nbut I know if I let the flame burn,<br \/>\nshe will burn down my house.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what happens when you<br \/>\nget what you prayed for at night<br \/>\nwhen you are on your knees praying for a little excitement and<br \/>\njust a spark enough to engulf you<br \/>\nand she comes to you<br \/>\nblending, in and bent<br \/>\nbut better at burning<br \/>\nthan any of the lovers<br \/>\nIn your bed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a dollar store match box, half price because the box had a tear in the side it had lost a few matches and I did about anything to save a dollar. I knew the first time I pulled a match out of Creased&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25981,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925\/revisions\/25981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}