Never took a liking to or understood the term<\/p>\n
But I knew well the purpose of its composition, to make others squirm<\/p>\n
Nonetheless<\/p>\n
I must protest<\/p>\n
My work was executed with fine precision<\/p>\n
Every sling a premeditated decision<\/p>\n
That no other would ever match<\/p>\n
My art was, is beyond the measures of the past<\/p>\n
I carefully cut those corroded cadavers<\/p>\n
Only to have my craft be honed down to an unscrupulous mad hatter?<\/p>\n
Who are they to dub me a flittering clipper?<\/p>\n
I am far too slicker<\/p>\n
To be a mere evening thriller<\/p>\n
My hands never faltered as I sliced precisely right<\/p>\n
Ha, let my craftsmanship speak for itself<\/p>\n
For to this day, not one has yet<\/p>\n
To forget<\/p>\n
And figure<\/p>\n
Who, from HELL, is Jack the Ripper?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Never took a liking to or understood the term But I knew well the purpose of its composition, to make others squirm Nonetheless I must protest My work was executed with fine precision Every sling a premeditated decision That no other would ever match My…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[2611,2610],"class_list":["post-40153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-from-hell","tag-jack-the-ripper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40153","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\/1120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40209,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40153\/revisions\/40209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}