{"id":41074,"date":"2017-08-06T03:11:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41074"},"modified":"2017-08-08T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T04:06:07","slug":"41074","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/41074\/","title":{"rendered":"Soucouyant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Poem 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soucouyant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A ball of fire flying through the night<br \/>\nDeep in the village<br \/>\nCausing quite a fright<\/p>\n<p>They say it&#8217;s a woman<br \/>\nPerhaps the Devil&#8217;s wife<br \/>\nA witch perhaps<br \/>\nSomething magical and powerful<br \/>\nAll the way from Africa<\/p>\n<p>Anyone waking up with marks<br \/>\nBlack and blue it&#8217;s not a mysterious bruise<br \/>\n&#8220;She done suck yuh blood!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All in an uproar<br \/>\nThe villagers will catch her<\/p>\n<p>Next night when she takes off her skin<\/p>\n<p>If found by the mortar they&#8217;ll throw salt in<\/p>\n<p>If not<\/p>\n<p>they&#8217;ll protect their homes throwing a 100 pound bag of rice around and she won&#8217;t be able to enter till she counts every last grain<\/p>\n<p>And if she&#8217;s still out when the sun appears<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll be destroyed by its angelic rays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem 15 Soucouyant A ball of fire flying through the night Deep in the village Causing quite a fright They say it&#8217;s a woman Perhaps the Devil&#8217;s wife A witch perhaps Something magical and powerful All the way from Africa Anyone waking up with marks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41074","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\/719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41074"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43761,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41074\/revisions\/43761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}