{"id":42917,"date":"2017-08-06T08:13:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42917"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:32:30","slug":"24-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/24-5\/","title":{"rendered":"24. The View From the Writer&#8217;s Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won\u2019t show you what I see<br \/>\nyou\u2019re sure not to believe me.<br \/>\nMy view is shrouded, clouded,<br \/>\nsad, and sweet and tragic packaged<br \/>\nin goofy, filled with more darkness<br \/>\nridiculousness. There are dragons<br \/>\noutside my window. Dire wolves,<br \/>\nHuge, haunting, and lurking things,<br \/>\ndragging oversized knives, lugging<br \/>\npyramid heads. Continuing in their<br \/>\ndreaded existence. Doomed to roam.<br \/>\nBecause I caught them and kept them<br \/>\nhere. These bringers of death and<br \/>\ndestruction set to a sweet symphony<br \/>\nin a minor key. So come, play me a song<br \/>\nand I\u2019ll trade you a tale. One that I<br \/>\ncannot promise you will like.<br \/>\nBut one that will help you find something<br \/>\nthat you didn\u2019t know you kept hidden.<br \/>\nI am the one at the gate. I am the blue eye<br \/>\nin the window. Come and dance with me<br \/>\nBeneath the waves of my haunted ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won\u2019t show you what I see you\u2019re sure not to believe me. My view is shrouded, clouded, sad, and sweet and tragic packaged in goofy, filled with more darkness ridiculousness. There are dragons outside my window. Dire wolves, Huge, haunting, and lurking things, dragging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10,2210],"class_list":["post-42917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetry","tag-thepoetrymarathon2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42917","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\/936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68159,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42917\/revisions\/68159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}