{"id":36615,"date":"2017-08-05T17:29:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36615"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:29:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:29:32","slug":"9-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/9-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met them while sitting on the toilet.<br \/>\nI saved them, after I finished wiping<br \/>\nand&#8230;did I wash my hands?<\/p>\n<p>They had fallen into an ingenious trap.<br \/>\nCalled by the darkness, the damp.<br \/>\nThey stumbled in so easy,<br \/>\nbut the way out was slick<br \/>\nand I flicked the switch.<\/p>\n<p>I observed their failures,<br \/>\nas they scrambled and fell,<br \/>\nover and over and over,<br \/>\ntheir long legs flailing.<\/p>\n<p>Only when they settled into a corner to die,<br \/>\ndid I throw them a towel.<\/p>\n<p>They ran right over,<br \/>\ndesperate for the exit.<br \/>\nI left them in darkness,<br \/>\nthinking how alike we are in our panic<br \/>\nand relief.<\/p>\n<p>I called them Dave,<br \/>\nand they hung up on the ceiling a while,<br \/>\nbefore ensnaring themselves again.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we are the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met them while sitting on the toilet. I saved them, after I finished wiping and&#8230;did I wash my hands? They had fallen into an ingenious trap. Called by the darkness, the damp. They stumbled in so easy, but the way out was slick and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":975,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615","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\/975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36747,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615\/revisions\/36747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}