{"id":36719,"date":"2017-08-05T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36719"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:28:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:28:34","slug":"hour-nine-lo-a-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-nine-lo-a-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Nine Lo, a Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>09 2017 spider<\/p>\n<p>Lo, a Spider<br \/>\nby Paul Robert Sanford<\/p>\n<p>Is this a spider I see before me?<br \/>\nTiny legs waving an inch from my face?<br \/>\nWhere did you come from, friend,<br \/>\nand what is holding you up?<\/p>\n<p>Are you the hard worker<br \/>\nwho put those nets to catch bugs<br \/>\non my bathroom windows?<br \/>\nCarcasses of our prey littering the sill?<\/p>\n<p>How could anyone as tiny as you<br \/>\nconquer such grand beasts?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for all your hard work.<\/p>\n<p>One of these days I will clear away your work<br \/>\nso you, or your big sisters, can start again,<br \/>\nbut in the meantime it comforts me<br \/>\nto think those beasts are not at large<br \/>\nin the house.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad none of you are big enough to<br \/>\ncatch any of the mice,<br \/>\nbut small and hairless as you are<br \/>\nI\u2019m comfortable with you.<\/p>\n<p>You are welcome, little friend,<br \/>\nNow it is time to get out of my face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09 2017 spider Lo, a Spider by Paul Robert Sanford Is this a spider I see before me? Tiny legs waving an inch from my face? Where did you come from, friend, and what is holding you up? Are you the hard worker who put&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36719","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\/736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36733,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36719\/revisions\/36733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}