I saw him yesterday at the creek
\nTalking with his mother
\nAs she gathered shells
\nFor his necklace.<\/p>\n
Achilles had many a flame.<\/p>\n
I was just one maiden, fair enough
\nTo have caught his eye
\nAt the celebration
\nOf the solstice.<\/p>\n
More than me, he wanted fame.<\/p>\n
Never spoken of in myth, this peasant
\nWhom he loved as much
\nAs the young temple
\nPriestess that day.<\/p>\n
I would have borne his children.<\/p>\n
Or so I was told by the Goddess;
\nHis mother of ancient times
\nAnd mystical plays
\nWho lives far away.<\/p>\n
He sits on the thrones of Heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I saw him yesterday at the creek Talking with his mother As she gathered shells For his necklace. Achilles had many a flame. I was just one maiden, fair enough To have caught his eye At the celebration Of the solstice. More than me, he…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40528,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520\/revisions\/40528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}