{"id":26523,"date":"2016-08-14T02:06:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26523"},"modified":"2016-08-14T02:06:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:06:38","slug":"poem-eighteen-blue-rings-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-eighteen-blue-rings-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem Eighteen ~ Blue Rings of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long tentacles<br \/>\nwith suction cup ends.<br \/>\nSharp beak, dripping<br \/>\nwith poison &#8211;<br \/>\ndrip, drop, dripping into<br \/>\nthe veins of its prey.<br \/>\nCareful, or it may prey<br \/>\non you, though only if<br \/>\nyou are smaller than<br \/>\na golf ball.<br \/>\nBrilliant blue hues shine<br \/>\nout to the lucky viewer<br \/>\nwhen the unlucky victim<br \/>\nmoves too close; the rings of death.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26777\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-ringed-octopus-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"blue ringed octopus\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-ringed-octopus-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-ringed-octopus.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long tentacles with suction cup ends. Sharp beak, dripping with poison &#8211; drip, drop, dripping into the veins of its prey. Careful, or it may prey on you, though only if you are smaller than a golf ball. Brilliant blue hues shine out to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26523","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\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26781,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26523\/revisions\/26781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}