{"id":26866,"date":"2016-08-14T02:26:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26866"},"modified":"2016-08-14T02:26:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:26:30","slug":"magpie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/magpie\/","title":{"rendered":"magpie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">You feel it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The buzzing in the air about your head<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Electrified<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You are being watched, senses heightened,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You look around frightened<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For an unseen assailant<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The light washes out the colour<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Transforming the landscape into blocks<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Of brown and blue and khaki green<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Your rapid turning head is blurring<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The scene<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You hear a distant scraping<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">On the wire a blade is sharpened<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The pounding in your head<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Your blood<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Racing like your heart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">A whoosh, a crack right by your ear<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Like thunder<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">A flash of feathered lightening<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Striking again<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You feel it The buzzing in the air about your head Electrified You are being watched, senses heightened, You look around frightened For an unseen assailant The light washes out the colour Transforming the landscape into blocks Of brown and blue and khaki green Your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866","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\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26867,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions\/26867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}