{"id":3512,"date":"2014-08-23T22:35:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T02:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2014-08-23T22:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T02:35:27","slug":"its-eight-and-little-reds-in-the-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/its-eight-and-little-reds-in-the-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s Eight, And Little Red\u2019s In The Hood\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHey girl, where you going?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sun\u2019s hardly gone down,<\/p>\n<p>And the wolves are out and about already.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStranger, Danger!,\u201d I remember.<\/p>\n<p>Head down, looking on the ground,<\/p>\n<p>Make no eye contact, quick steps away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But they circle me, taunting rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just no going forward,<\/p>\n<p>No retreat back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unwanted hands move in to trespass.<\/p>\n<p>I grimace, recoil, shun their attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, stop it,\u201d I glower.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They continue, and I stop flinching.<\/p>\n<p>Pull out my kukri,<\/p>\n<p>Cut, thrust, and slash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All is still, and I walk on.<\/p>\n<p>I text Grandma:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry, will be late, am on my way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHey girl, where you going?\u201d Sun\u2019s hardly gone down, And the wolves are out and about already. &nbsp; \u201cStranger, Danger!,\u201d I remember. Head down, looking on the ground, Make no eye contact, quick steps away. &nbsp; But they circle me, taunting rapidly. There\u2019s just no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}