{"id":41854,"date":"2017-08-06T05:19:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41854"},"modified":"2017-08-06T05:19:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:19:17","slug":"hour-twenty-one-exaggeration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-twenty-one-exaggeration\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twenty-One, Exaggeration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tall True Tale<\/p>\n<p>My Creek Native American ancestor<br \/>\nwas seven feet tall<br \/>\nand a blacksmith<br \/>\nthat married a white woman<br \/>\nand drove his cattle and sheep<br \/>\neight hundred miles to market<br \/>\none way<br \/>\non foot<br \/>\nand returned home empty-handed<br \/>\neight hundred miles again.<br \/>\nHe died from pneumonia<br \/>\nat age twenty-one<br \/>\nand thus escaped the Trail of Tears,<br \/>\nhis baby girl just one year old,<br \/>\nand his wife remarried<br \/>\nand birthed seven sons.<br \/>\nAll true.<br \/>\nI swear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tall True Tale My Creek Native American ancestor was seven feet tall and a blacksmith that married a white woman and drove his cattle and sheep eight hundred miles to market one way on foot and returned home empty-handed eight hundred miles again. He died&#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-41854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41854","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=41854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41887,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41854\/revisions\/41887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}