{"id":50220,"date":"2019-06-22T14:59:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50220"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:59:24","slug":"hour-6-snake-and-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-6-snake-and-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 6: Snake and Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Snake and Mouse<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eyelid slide, shutter click<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bristle of fur, whisker twitch<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A furious beat, a tiny heart<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A drum, a time piece, with no escapement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All the while, scales of gold<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moving, articulated, slow<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A calculation, a maneuver<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black-eyed, dead-eyed, taught.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inevitable darkness falls,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A being&#8217;s true nature calls<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">contraction, constriction,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A gentle slide to oblivion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snake and Mouse Eyelid slide, shutter click Bristle of fur, whisker twitch A furious beat, a tiny heart A drum, a time piece, with no escapement. &nbsp; All the while, scales of gold Moving, articulated, slow A calculation, a maneuver Black-eyed, dead-eyed, taught. &nbsp; Inevitable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50220","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\/1179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50242,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50220\/revisions\/50242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}