{"id":36393,"date":"2017-08-05T17:15:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36393"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:15:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:15:42","slug":"spider-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/spider-2\/","title":{"rendered":"spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first noticed her web<br \/>\nin the apple tree<br \/>\nafter the rain,<br \/>\nholding droplets<br \/>\nand waving like a flag in the breeze after the storm,<br \/>\na misleading wave<br \/>\nlike surrender<br \/>\nwhen it is all really a trap<br \/>\nand it isn&#8217;t sunlight captured in those droplets<br \/>\nbut death and darkness<br \/>\nin a flirtatious curl<br \/>\ntempting others<br \/>\nunsuspecting<br \/>\nor poorly educated<br \/>\nto venture across these webby strands<br \/>\na shortcut,<br \/>\noh yes, a short cut,<br \/>\na life to be cut<br \/>\nshort,<br \/>\na baffled cootie now destined to be<br \/>\nthe next meal<\/p>\n<p>how more civilized as I<br \/>\nwalk across the yard<br \/>\nand pluck<br \/>\nan apple from the tree<br \/>\ntake a bite<br \/>\nafter the spider and I pray together,<br \/>\n&#8220;bless us, oh Lord, and these thy gifts&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first noticed her web in the apple tree after the rain, holding droplets and waving like a flag in the breeze after the storm, a misleading wave like surrender when it is all really a trap and it isn&#8217;t sunlight captured in those droplets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36393","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\/803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36562,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36393\/revisions\/36562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}