{"id":43645,"date":"2017-08-07T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43645"},"modified":"2017-08-07T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:38:27","slug":"ballad-to-a-shield-maiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/ballad-to-a-shield-maiden\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballad to a Shield Maiden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love\u00a0a maiden who&#8217;s skin is fair as fresh milk.<\/p>\n<p>Her hair is spun gold.<\/p>\n<p>Her eyes are a sea during a storm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She is more than an ornament,<\/p>\n<p>a fruit to be picked in its true time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her tongue is sharp.<\/p>\n<p>Her wits the sharper.<\/p>\n<p>Her temper, a roaring fire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thr\u016bd warrior goddess,<\/p>\n<p>Thor&#8217;s true daughter<\/p>\n<p>has been made flesh in this maiden&#8217;s guise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not even the queen of Valkyries could be more lovely.<\/p>\n<p>Thor&#8217;s own child would not be as strong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I go to court a woman<\/p>\n<p>of beauty, strength, and skill,<\/p>\n<p>may I find favor in her will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love\u00a0a maiden who&#8217;s skin is fair as fresh milk. Her hair is spun gold. Her eyes are a sea during a storm. &nbsp; She is more than an ornament, a fruit to be picked in its true time. &nbsp; Her tongue is sharp. Her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43645","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\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43646,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43645\/revisions\/43646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}