{"id":46343,"date":"2019-06-22T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46343"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:40:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:40:23","slug":"in-the-headlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/in-the-headlights\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Headlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bad actor<br \/>\nalways<br \/>\nlooks down<br \/>\nthen bluffs the idea<br \/>\nof what he&#8217;s supposed to say<br \/>\nwhile<br \/>\neveryone<br \/>\nscrambles<br \/>\nto catch up to something<br \/>\nthey never<br \/>\nrehearsed<\/p>\n<p>Like a student<br \/>\nwho has written<br \/>\nthe wrong answers<br \/>\nin the palm<br \/>\nof his hand,<br \/>\nthe actor<br \/>\nsmiles wide<br \/>\nbehind his desk,<br \/>\nthinking himself<br \/>\nthe victor<br \/>\nwhere<br \/>\nnone<br \/>\nare<br \/>\nto<br \/>\nbe<br \/>\nfound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bad actor always looks down then bluffs the idea of what he&#8217;s supposed to say while everyone scrambles to catch up to something they never rehearsed Like a student who has written the wrong answers in the palm of his hand, the actor smiles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46343","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47413,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46343\/revisions\/47413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}