{"id":36583,"date":"2017-08-05T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36583"},"modified":"2017-08-06T02:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:46:28","slug":"9-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/9-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"9: Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O Holy One<br \/>\nwho governs the vast and endless spaces<br \/>\nbetween the galaxies,<br \/>\nyet cares for the sparrows sold two for a farthing,<br \/>\nyou fashioned this wee eight-legged engine,<br \/>\ngeometer of lethal gossamer,<br \/>\nfly-slayer, death-weaver, rain-catcher,<br \/>\ncritter I swat with a furious slipper<br \/>\nif I spy him in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot discern your purpose in making this creature,<br \/>\nbane of housewives, arachnid mascot of Halloween:<br \/>\nperhaps you meant to give your human poets<br \/>\nan example of patience and measure,<br \/>\nof fatal and unswerving concentration,<br \/>\narchitect adept<br \/>\nat storm-sturdy structures of air and thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Holy One who governs the vast and endless spaces between the galaxies, yet cares for the sparrows sold two for a farthing, you fashioned this wee eight-legged engine, geometer of lethal gossamer, fly-slayer, death-weaver, rain-catcher, critter I swat with a furious slipper if I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":933,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36583","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\/933"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36583"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40996,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36583\/revisions\/40996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}