{"id":33639,"date":"2017-08-05T12:32:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33639"},"modified":"2017-08-05T12:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:32:01","slug":"wicked-little-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/wicked-little-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked, Little Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>wicked, little monster<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wicked, little monster,<\/p>\n<p>dancing on my heart:<\/p>\n<p>two-step, jig, or tapping<\/p>\n<p>tearing me apart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Holding me for ransom<\/p>\n<p>for a price I cannot pay &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>wicked, little monster,<\/p>\n<p>don\u2019t let me die this way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I beg only for the mercy<\/p>\n<p>I know you have to spare,<\/p>\n<p>wicked, little monster<\/p>\n<p>see how you\u2019ve laid me bare?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wicked, little monster<\/p>\n<p>can\u2019t you see me bleed,<\/p>\n<p>crumpled, beaten, shattered &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>kneeling at your feet?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 R. L. Elke<\/p>\n<p>Aug 5\/17\u00a0 prompt 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wicked, little monster \u00a0 Wicked, little monster, dancing on my heart: two-step, jig, or tapping tearing me apart. &nbsp; Holding me for ransom for a price I cannot pay &#8211; wicked, little monster, don\u2019t let me die this way. &nbsp; I beg only for the&#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-33639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33639","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=33639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33670,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33639\/revisions\/33670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}