{"id":36592,"date":"2017-08-05T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36592"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:21:35","slug":"poem-9-arachnophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/poem-9-arachnophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 9: Arachnophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terror,<br \/>\nthe scratch of thin,<br \/>\nchitinous,<br \/>\nway-too-many<br \/>\nlegs<br \/>\nacross porous drywall.<\/p>\n<p>Breath<br \/>\nhissing,<br \/>\ncoating my tongue<br \/>\nin whisper-light webs.<\/p>\n<p>Panic,<br \/>\nskittering and skating<br \/>\nthrough my belly<br \/>\nand across my chest,<br \/>\nstrumming taut muscles and<br \/>\ngnawing the back of my eyes.<br \/>\nMy teeth rattle<br \/>\nin counterpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Words,<br \/>\nsome hyperbolic,<br \/>\nothers too cutesy to cause any harm.<br \/>\nAnything but The Word,<br \/>\nwith its six letters and<br \/>\ntwo syllables,<br \/>\nbecause six plus two<br \/>\nequals eight.<\/p>\n<p>Frozen,<br \/>\nI am alone, envenomed,<br \/>\ncocooned in a shuddering,<br \/>\nleaking,<br \/>\nshivering,<br \/>\nsobbing<br \/>\nslab of quivering flesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terror, the scratch of thin, chitinous, way-too-many legs across porous drywall. Breath hissing, coating my tongue in whisper-light webs. Panic, skittering and skating through my belly and across my chest, strumming taut muscles and gnawing the back of my eyes. My teeth rattle in counterpoint&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36592","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\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36656,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36592\/revisions\/36656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}