{"id":51581,"date":"2019-06-22T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51581"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:22:44","slug":"hour-6-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-6-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Sliding Sonnet for a Side-Bitch<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The air is cold, the night is deep<\/p>\n<p>and I on bended haunches creep<\/p>\n<p>like feral dog, to where you sleep<\/p>\n<p>more like than not, untroubled<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I express a desperate whine<\/p>\n<p>outside your door, the thousandth time<\/p>\n<p>open up, oh please be mine<\/p>\n<p>my simpering love redoubled<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This pathetic vigil faithfully kept<\/p>\n<p>all the nights while you slept<\/p>\n<p>in company you despised except<\/p>\n<p>when I came close enough to meet them<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You pet me, praise me, throw me a bone<\/p>\n<p>then leave me shivering out here alone<\/p>\n<p>outside your oh-so-happy home<\/p>\n<p>promising one day, one day I shall unseat them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A master&#8217;s hand is a brutal thing<\/p>\n<p>when encased inside a metal ring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sliding Sonnet for a Side-Bitch &nbsp; The air is cold, the night is deep and I on bended haunches creep like feral dog, to where you sleep more like than not, untroubled &nbsp; I express a desperate whine outside your door, the thousandth time open&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51581","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\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51594,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51581\/revisions\/51594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}