{"id":40239,"date":"2017-08-06T00:49:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40239"},"modified":"2017-08-06T00:49:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:49:09","slug":"hour-sixteen-persona-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-sixteen-persona-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Sixteen, Persona poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halfling<\/p>\n<p>In wordy deceit my prize was won,<br \/>\na cunning power came to me, precious<br \/>\nand rare. I engaged in word play with<br \/>\na poor twisted thing, alone and insane<br \/>\nfor so very long. We traded our best riddles,<br \/>\nmy life for a ring of gold.<\/p>\n<p>Back and forth we bantered,<br \/>\nof eggs, teeth, and time,<br \/>\nuntil inspiration no longer came.<br \/>\nHe could not guess what lay within<br \/>\nthe pocket of my waistcoat, and so<br \/>\nrather than be eaten, with my new<br \/>\nfound power, I disappeared, into what<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; . . . cannot be seen, cannot be felt,<br \/>\ncannot be heard, cannot be smelt,&#8221;<br \/>\nwhat &#8221; . . . lies behind stars, and under hills,<br \/>\nand empty holes, fills. It comes first,<br \/>\nand follows after, ends life, kills laughter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back to the light of the surface I stole,<br \/>\nnever suspecting the havoc and hate<br \/>\nI gleefully left behind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halfling In wordy deceit my prize was won, a cunning power came to me, precious and rare. I engaged in word play with a poor twisted thing, alone and insane for so very long. We traded our best riddles, my life for a ring of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40311,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239\/revisions\/40311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}