{"id":25377,"date":"2016-08-13T22:24:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25377"},"modified":"2016-08-13T22:28:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:28:26","slug":"sorry-to-be-such-a-pest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/sorry-to-be-such-a-pest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry To Be Such A Pest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel the need to apologize<\/p>\n<p>to the bugs I kill in the house:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry, guy,&#8221; ruefully,<\/p>\n<p>to the silverfish I squish,<\/p>\n<p>his softness a smear<\/p>\n<p>on my mint green wall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just\u00a0days ago, I watched<\/p>\n<p>a minute ant colony<\/p>\n<p>industriously doom itself<\/p>\n<p>in the trap by my desk,<\/p>\n<p>amber flecks trundling<\/p>\n<p>their poisonous lodes<\/p>\n<p>through the tiniest crack.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly,<\/p>\n<p>they crawled up my leg<\/p>\n<p>each\u00a0time I put down my foot,<\/p>\n<p>so something <em>had<\/em> to be done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention the handsome,<\/p>\n<p>impossible bumble bees<\/p>\n<p>nesting just over the door.<\/p>\n<p>The landlord sprayed,<\/p>\n<p>but I&#8217;m guilty by association.<\/p>\n<p>This morning a straggler lay<\/p>\n<p>on the step, triangle wings<\/p>\n<p>like a downed jet,<\/p>\n<p>his body&#8211;fuzz<\/p>\n<p>and shiny blackness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel the need to apologize to the bugs I kill in the house: &#8220;Sorry, guy,&#8221; ruefully, to the silverfish I squish, his softness a smear on my mint green wall. &nbsp; Just\u00a0days ago, I watched a minute ant colony industriously doom itself in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[1905,1134],"class_list":["post-25377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-hour-fourteen-prompt","tag-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377","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\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25499,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377\/revisions\/25499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}