{"id":54811,"date":"2019-06-22T23:40:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54811"},"modified":"2019-06-22T23:40:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:40:19","slug":"hour-15-four-horsemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-15-four-horsemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 15 &#8211; Four Horsemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Horsemen<\/p>\n<p>Four horsemen from below did ride<br \/>\nOn steeds as thin as smoke<br \/>\nFour horsemen seated side by side<br \/>\nAnd braggingly they spoke:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am Pestilence,\u201d said the first,<br \/>\n\u201cI kill with racking pain.<br \/>\nMy sores and fevers are the worst<br \/>\nNo one can match my fame\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is War,\u201d the second cried,<br \/>\n\u201cI do not kill at all.<br \/>\nI teach mortals the sting of pride<br \/>\nThen watch the legions fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am Famine,\u201d proclaimed the third,<br \/>\n\u201cStarvation is my tool.<br \/>\nGreed and hording are my watchwords,<br \/>\nFor humankind is cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am Death,\u201d the last one spoke<br \/>\n\u201cNo one escapes my blade.<br \/>\nThe old, the young, the rich, the broke,<br \/>\nTo me the price is paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Four horsemen from below did ride<br \/>\nThe Last Days drawing nigh<br \/>\nFour horsemen seated side by side<br \/>\nTo watch the humans die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Horsemen Four horsemen from below did ride On steeds as thin as smoke Four horsemen seated side by side And braggingly they spoke: \u201cI am Pestilence,\u201d said the first, \u201cI kill with racking pain. My sores and fevers are the worst No one can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54811","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54824,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54811\/revisions\/54824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}