{"id":37183,"date":"2017-08-05T18:16:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37183"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:18:09","slug":"arachdid-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/arachdid-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnidn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us of a certain age<br \/>\nwent to school with a<br \/>\n\u2018daddy long legs\u2019<br \/>\nsome tall, gangly, dude we<br \/>\nassumed would be great at<br \/>\nbasketball, hanging stars<br \/>\non Christmas trees<\/p>\n<p>had I been married to a<br \/>\n\u2018black widow\u2019<br \/>\nI would not be here to<br \/>\nwax poetic strands<\/p>\n<p>even so, it is a tangled web<br \/>\nthe world has woven<br \/>\naround spindly creatures<br \/>\nwith an affinity for<br \/>\nwaterspouts, dark corners<\/p>\n<p>though to their credit<br \/>\nthey were doing world wide webs<br \/>\nbefore the web was cool.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2017<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us of a certain age went to school with a \u2018daddy long legs\u2019 some tall, gangly, dude we assumed would be great at basketball, hanging stars on Christmas trees had I been married to a \u2018black widow\u2019 I would not be here to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2421],"class_list":["post-37183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-2017-prompt-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37183","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37768,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37183\/revisions\/37768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}