{"id":43212,"date":"2017-08-06T08:50:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43212"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:50:55","slug":"1824-allurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/1824-allurement\/","title":{"rendered":"(#18\/24): \u201cAllurement\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to come down, said the spider to the fly?<\/p>\n<p>Are you not wearying of your buzzing peregrinations?<\/p>\n<p>Could you not settle down for just a moment?<\/p>\n<p>Will you come into my web of lies?<\/p>\n<p>This enticing parlour of betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>All for a moment of respite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The spirit is willing, but the flesh is invariably weak.<\/p>\n<p>Surrender then, to the inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Enter my domain of regret,<\/p>\n<p>And be trapped, helpless as a babe,<\/p>\n<p>In this fatal plight of my weaving, and your weakness.<\/p>\n<p>As I approach, you struggle to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your end is nigh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to come down, said the spider to the fly? Are you not wearying of your buzzing peregrinations? Could you not settle down for just a moment? Will you come into my web of lies? This enticing parlour of betrayal. All for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43212","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43217,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43212\/revisions\/43217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}