{"id":27183,"date":"2016-08-14T03:44:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27183"},"modified":"2016-08-14T03:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:44:13","slug":"in-and-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/in-and-out\/","title":{"rendered":"In and Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In and Out<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t mean to kill<\/p>\n<p>the man,<\/p>\n<p>it was self-defence,<\/p>\n<p>he said &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>he came home<\/p>\n<p>to the burglary<\/p>\n<p>in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>I only meant to<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>get his attention,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>he gasped,<\/p>\n<p><em>to scare him away.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pardon me,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>your honour\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The man shuddered<\/p>\n<p>with anguish<\/p>\n<p>and grief:<\/p>\n<p><em>Pardon me, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>your honour,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I deeply regret <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>what I have done.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the man<\/p>\n<p>gathered up his<\/p>\n<p>papers and<\/p>\n<p>satchel,<\/p>\n<p>he<\/p>\n<p>was as repentant<\/p>\n<p>as a pardoned man<\/p>\n<p>should be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Closing the door<\/p>\n<p>behind him,<\/p>\n<p>in his welcome<\/p>\n<p>home,<\/p>\n<p>his partner asks:<\/p>\n<p><em>How are you<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>always<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>getting away with murder?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0(c) \u00a0R. L. Elke 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In and Out &nbsp; He didn\u2019t mean to kill the man, it was self-defence, he said &#8211; he came home to the burglary in the dark. &nbsp; I only meant to get his attention, he gasped, to scare him away. Pardon me, your honour\u2026 \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27183","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27190,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27183\/revisions\/27190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}