{"id":3950,"date":"2014-08-24T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2014-08-24T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T07:08:09","slug":"blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two gasping<br \/>\nQuick inhalations <\/p>\n<p>And then <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You have got to learn<br \/>\nTo wing it<br \/>\nOnly then can we<br \/>\nAll flock together&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She told me when I was age four<\/p>\n<p>Then there was that day<br \/>\nThe day of <\/p>\n<p>Blood<\/p>\n<p>They called her grandmother<br \/>\nI called her grandmother too<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8216;child,<br \/>\nNothing can ever harm us<br \/>\nSave that which we fear<br \/>\nOr that which we love&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Gasp<br \/>\nBreath like knives<br \/>\nIn my lungs<br \/>\nGrandmothers face<br \/>\nA mask of riteous fury<\/p>\n<p>A quick inhalation<br \/>\nA sob <\/p>\n<p>Grandmother holds me<br \/>\nThe bad man dead<br \/>\nWe both safe<br \/>\nCovered in his murderous<\/p>\n<p>Blood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two gasping Quick inhalations And then &#8216;You have got to learn To wing it Only then can we All flock together&#8221; She told me when I was age four Then there was that day The day of Blood They called her grandmother I called her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[224,155,53,52],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-blood","tag-poem-poetry","tag-starklight-press","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}