{"id":56144,"date":"2019-06-23T03:38:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56144"},"modified":"2019-06-23T03:38:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:38:13","slug":"i-was-listening-to-murder-in-the-red-barn-by-tom-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/i-was-listening-to-murder-in-the-red-barn-by-tom-waits\/","title":{"rendered":"I was listening to &#8216;Murder in the Red Barn&#8217; by Tom Waits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the air gets stale and musty<br \/>\nin the swamp of late July<br \/>\nThe cicadas scream all day<br \/>\nat night the possums start to cry<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe old man&#8217;s drunk and mad again<br \/>\nkilling in self-defense is not a crime<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s too damn hot to tolerate this shit<br \/>\nhe smacked her one too many times<br \/>\n<br \/>\nShe might be getting on in years<br \/>\nbut she&#8217;s a woman of many faces<br \/>\nHe owes a lot of money<br \/>\nAnd she&#8217;s known men in strong places<br \/>\n<br \/>\nShe knows she&#8217;s in the old man&#8217;s will<br \/>\nShe knows the first name of the county clerk<br \/>\nShe knows where old man keeps the axes<br \/>\nShe knows what time he gets off work<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe rats grew bored of stealing cheese<br \/>\nand ganged up on a mouse<br \/>\nAnd the lady of the home<br \/>\nis stuck inside this house<\/p>\n<p>eh you get the idea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the air gets stale and musty in the swamp of late July The cicadas scream all day at night the possums start to cry The old man&#8217;s drunk and mad again killing in self-defense is not a crime It&#8217;s too damn hot to tolerate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56144","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\/1259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56161,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56144\/revisions\/56161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}