{"id":26367,"date":"2016-08-14T00:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T04:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26367"},"modified":"2016-08-14T00:58:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T04:58:17","slug":"prompt-14-iron-eater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/prompt-14-iron-eater\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 14 &#8211; Iron Eater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living as me, in a time when<br \/>\nFear ruled<br \/>\nJust about everything<br \/>\nI thought<br \/>\nand did &#8212; It was<\/p>\n<p>A new experience<br \/>\nWhen I<br \/>\nWalked to school<br \/>\nUnder the pass,<\/p>\n<p>Heart clenched in terror<br \/>\nAt sights of<br \/>\nUnruly branches and weeds<br \/>\nAlmost as tall as me<br \/>\nBurst through unkempt,<br \/>\nOvertaken sidewalks<\/p>\n<p>In a city where<br \/>\nNature is tamed and<br \/>\nKept in line,<br \/>\nUnallowed to break through.<\/p>\n<p>Graffiti overtaken<br \/>\nBy ivy<br \/>\nClimbing up the sediment stones<br \/>\nUnder the curve of the pass<br \/>\nCreates<br \/>\nA surreal sight, as if<br \/>\nI were in an entirely different<br \/>\nWorld<\/p>\n<p>From the tamed<br \/>\nNicety<br \/>\nOf my city.<\/p>\n<p>When I emerged from<br \/>\nThe pass, I swore I just<br \/>\nWas transported<br \/>\nBack to normality<\/p>\n<p>But then I met the<br \/>\nIron Eaters;<br \/>\nTrees along fences<br \/>\nThat do not simply break<br \/>\nBut instead assimilate<br \/>\nTheir metal<br \/>\nInto their bark<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/6QqNVD\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/3\/2609\/3829816191_0b3dbcca41_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living as me, in a time when Fear ruled Just about everything I thought and did &#8212; It was A new experience When I Walked to school Under the pass, Heart clenched in terror At sights of Unruly branches and weeds Almost as tall as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,1245,1130],"class_list":["post-26367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poem","tag-poetrymarathon2k16","tag-prompt-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26367","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\/698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26447,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26367\/revisions\/26447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}