{"id":36071,"date":"2017-08-05T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36071"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:52:26","slug":"spider-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/spider-9\/","title":{"rendered":"spider &#8211; #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day I walked carefree through woods<br \/>\nacred behind my childhood home, only to return<br \/>\nred-skinned with fast-moving blotches rising up<br \/>\nthat morphed soon enough to full-body swelling.<\/p>\n<p>I was immersed in cold water with baking soda<br \/>\nas my older sister gasped alternately<br \/>\nwith laughter and disbelief at the sight growing<br \/>\nbefore her eyes across my body.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was my walk carefree but apparently<br \/>\ncareless as well: I had walked right through<br \/>\na red spider mite nest, to which I am<br \/>\nobviously quite allergic. Ever since<\/p>\n<p>when I encounter spider webs, I react<br \/>\n(overly, perhaps) by flailing my arms to release<br \/>\nthe sticky threads that would cling to me,<br \/>\nwith apologies for disrupting a day&#8217;s hard work.<\/p>\n<p>swb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day I walked carefree through woods acred behind my childhood home, only to return red-skinned with fast-moving blotches rising up that morphed soon enough to full-body swelling. I was immersed in cold water with baking soda as my older sister gasped alternately with laughter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36071","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\/1122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36949,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36071\/revisions\/36949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}