{"id":37316,"date":"2017-08-05T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37316"},"modified":"2017-08-06T02:10:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:10:35","slug":"the-reaper-visits-a-celebrating-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-reaper-visits-a-celebrating-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 10: The Reaper Visits a Celebrating Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gray clouds precede the midnight black<br \/>\nonce arrived, coats the sky in ink-<br \/>\nmagenta sparks explode in the air,<br \/>\nfollowed by gold, crimson, emerald, and sapphire-<br \/>\non the roof, a man lights another firework.<br \/>\nThe rocket blooms in the sky,<br \/>\ncasting a kaleidoscope of multicolored smoke on<br \/>\nslate stone buildings border the streets-<br \/>\nconnected awning to awning by tawny ropes<br \/>\nhanging lanterns cast citrine glows below-<br \/>\nwhere crowds shuffle between chestnut walls<br \/>\nand mahogany planks of run-down buildings.<br \/>\nNearby, in a darkened alleyway,<br \/>\nthe silver sword escapes its sheath.<br \/>\nWhite strips of bandage unravel around the blade<br \/>\nrevealing rows of runes glowing azure blue<br \/>\nin the air slowly darkening with dusk.<br \/>\nA hooded stranger folded in ragged cloaks of black<br \/>\nspins and plunges the sword-<br \/>\nin the dimness, a body falls-<br \/>\nstaining the cobblestones with scarlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gray clouds precede the midnight black once arrived, coats the sky in ink- magenta sparks explode in the air, followed by gold, crimson, emerald, and sapphire- on the roof, a man lights another firework. The rocket blooms in the sky, casting a kaleidoscope of multicolored&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37316","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\/1010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40805,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37316\/revisions\/40805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}