{"id":40257,"date":"2017-08-06T00:45:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40257"},"modified":"2017-08-06T00:45:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:45:52","slug":"abdominal-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/abdominal-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdominal Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At my parents&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>you don&#8217;t even get in the gate<\/p>\n<p>(because there isn&#8217;t one)<\/p>\n<p>before they swoop,<\/p>\n<p>more Bat than Spider,<\/p>\n<p>coming down as they do<\/p>\n<p>from out of nowhere,<\/p>\n<p>a shocked-skin-wisp at head height,<\/p>\n<p>the gap in the conifers<\/p>\n<p>booby trapped with trip wires<\/p>\n<p>so provisional &amp; finite<\/p>\n<p>in the motion sensor<\/p>\n<p>you should be ashamed of yourself,<\/p>\n<p>the fuss you make<\/p>\n<p>about the thoughts you have &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>as if there&#8217;s ever hatched<\/p>\n<p>a legion from an ear!<\/p>\n<p>And by <em>you<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I mean <em>I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At my parents&#8217; you don&#8217;t even get in the gate (because there isn&#8217;t one) before they swoop, more Bat than Spider, coming down as they do from out of nowhere, a shocked-skin-wisp at head height, the gap in the conifers booby trapped with trip wires&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257","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\/1073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40290,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions\/40290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}