{"id":39006,"date":"2017-08-05T21:24:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39006"},"modified":"2017-08-05T21:24:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:24:47","slug":"jonah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/jonah\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah took the easy route,<br \/>\nrunning from the world<br \/>\nstraight into a sperm whale.<br \/>\nSwallow me whole, take my<br \/>\nbody as brine, flesh<br \/>\nshifting, turning into<br \/>\nsoda bread. Or chew me<br \/>\nlike a gummy worm&#8211;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m empty and sweet.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll love you like I loved<br \/>\nGoliath who couldn&#8217;t see,<br \/>\nled to the slaughter, held<br \/>\nfor fear and mocked and hurt and martyred.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t let me die this way,<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t let them use me or my<br \/>\nsoul made of broken glass and<br \/>\nrusted fish hooks. I can only<br \/>\nbreathe out mustard gas now.<br \/>\nLet me be remembered for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah took the easy route, running from the world straight into a sperm whale. Swallow me whole, take my body as brine, flesh shifting, turning into soda bread. Or chew me like a gummy worm&#8211; I&#8217;m empty and sweet. I&#8217;ll love you like I loved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39006","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39033,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39006\/revisions\/39033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}