{"id":42672,"date":"2017-08-06T07:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42672"},"modified":"2017-08-06T07:40:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:40:02","slug":"22-the-master-and-the-maid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/22-the-master-and-the-maid\/","title":{"rendered":"22. The Master and the Maid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still she stood as the master ordered<br \/>\nHer helper\u2019s overalls were exchanged for a black revealing gown<br \/>\nBought from the Maiden Fair store<br \/>\nHer master was an artist<br \/>\nEveryone knew him<br \/>\nShe was privileged to work for him they said<br \/>\nShe wondered what the privilege was<br \/>\nTo stand for hours in a dress she was coerced to wear<br \/>\nFirst with bribes, then threats<br \/>\nShe succumbed; she had brothers and sisters to feed<br \/>\nShe stood with rage running through her veins<br \/>\nBe still, don\u2019t shake he said<br \/>\nShe stood still, planning in her head<br \/>\nOn how to purchase<br \/>\nThe powder they said that can\u2019t be detected<br \/>\nWhen given in small amounts over a long period of time<br \/>\nA tiny smile appeared on her face<br \/>\nHe captured it succinctly though not knowing why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still she stood as the master ordered Her helper\u2019s overalls were exchanged for a black revealing gown Bought from the Maiden Fair store Her master was an artist Everyone knew him She was privileged to work for him they said She wondered what the privilege&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2724],"class_list":["post-42672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-ekphratic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42672","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\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42690,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42672\/revisions\/42690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}