{"id":2497,"date":"2014-08-23T16:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2014-08-23T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T20:34:06","slug":"shakespeare-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/shakespeare-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare with a Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romeo and Juliet, star crossed lovers of yore,<br \/>\nDestined to a heartless end by familial animus<br \/>\nForever doomed forever more,<br \/>\nSuccumbing to the patriarchal rivalries<\/p>\n<p>How so this adolescent aspiration<br \/>\nSaw through this acrimony,<br \/>\nAnd dreamed of bliss and celebration,<br \/>\nand matrimonial ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The treachery of the apothecary,<br \/>\nThe missed communication,<br \/>\nLeft poor Romeo aghast and solitary,<br \/>\nAnd tainted with suicidal persuasion.<\/p>\n<p>And we, the heartbroken audience had hoped<br \/>\nHow much more joyous if they had just eloped.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2014 D. Edward Croy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romeo and Juliet, star crossed lovers of yore, Destined to a heartless end by familial animus Forever doomed forever more, Succumbing to the patriarchal rivalries How so this adolescent aspiration Saw through this acrimony, And dreamed of bliss and celebration, and matrimonial ceremony. The treachery&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}