Elegant lines chased in black<\/p>\n
against a porcelain white.<\/p>\n
Lady, standing all alone,<\/p>\n
who’s your lover tonight?<\/p>\n
Half-turned and prepared,<\/p>\n
perhaps to smile or refrain,<\/p>\n
those and more are jealous,<\/p>\n
would you dance with the likes of us?<\/p>\n
Daughter Aphrodite, cool and shy,<\/p>\n
would your auburn head turn<\/p>\n
to come and stay awhile?<\/p>\n
Pretty little lady,<\/p>\n
dressed in black,<\/p>\n
remember this is temporary,<\/p>\n
whilst you stay in best dress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elegant lines chased in black against a porcelain white. Lady, standing all alone, who’s your lover tonight? Half-turned and prepared, perhaps to smile or refrain, those and more are jealous, would you dance with the likes of us? Daughter Aphrodite, cool and shy, would your…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42163","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42187,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42163\/revisions\/42187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}