{"id":47485,"date":"2019-06-22T10:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47485"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:47:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:47:51","slug":"when-the-magic-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/when-the-magic-doesnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Magic Doesn&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abracadabra!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like some golden elixir<\/p>\n<p>Through my veins,<\/p>\n<p>Burning away the glitter,<\/p>\n<p>The pink speckled shrapnel,<\/p>\n<p>Where the tumor burst,<\/p>\n<p>Seeding my body with poison\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The audience gasps\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd now, for my next trick,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wave the magic wand;<\/p>\n<p>Make the cancer disappear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saw the woman in half,<\/p>\n<p>Remove all the\u2026 \u2018nothing up my sleeve\u2019,<\/p>\n<p>Nothing in my hat,<\/p>\n<p>Nothing in my headscarf.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pick a card, any card,<\/p>\n<p>A doctor, any doctor,<\/p>\n<p>An outcome\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spin the magic box, say the words, and, Voila!<\/p>\n<p>She has vanished.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for my next feat, I will need a new volunteer; raise your hand and let me see your veins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abracadabra! &nbsp; Like some golden elixir Through my veins, Burning away the glitter, The pink speckled shrapnel, Where the tumor burst, Seeding my body with poison\u2026 &nbsp; The audience gasps\u2026 &nbsp; \u201cAnd now, for my next trick,\u201d &nbsp; Wave the magic wand; Make the cancer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47485","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47501,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47485\/revisions\/47501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}