{"id":56656,"date":"2019-06-23T06:01:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56656"},"modified":"2019-06-23T06:01:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:01:40","slug":"intermezzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/intermezzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermezzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intermezzo<br \/>\nVirginia Carraway Stark<\/p>\n<p>Intertwined<br \/>\nIn luminous black and white<br \/>\nThey were determined to create a legend<br \/>\nAppropriate a myth<br \/>\nAnything is fair in love and war<br \/>\nOr so those who do such things will say<br \/>\nIf they don&#8217;t those pangs of guilt<br \/>\nWill hurt them in the night<br \/>\nJump off the cliffs<br \/>\nInto the breakwaters<br \/>\nSay a prayer and hope<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t feel evil jaws around<br \/>\nYour thighs<br \/>\nThis is the real world<br \/>\nOf the city of white<br \/>\nIntermezzo<br \/>\nIt brings us back<br \/>\nTo our duet of love<br \/>\nLooking at each other<br \/>\nFrom across a river<br \/>\nLonging for each other<br \/>\nAll the while we don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nWho made up the story we play in<br \/>\nWhere is the house?<br \/>\nWhere is the water&#8217;s edge?<br \/>\nWhy can&#8217;t we play together?<br \/>\nWhy must there ever be a war<br \/>\nTo interrupt the piece we play? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intermezzo Virginia Carraway Stark Intertwined In luminous black and white They were determined to create a legend Appropriate a myth Anything is fair in love and war Or so those who do such things will say If they don&#8217;t those pangs of guilt Will hurt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3019,2793,3318,52],"class_list":["post-56656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-best-poems-2019","tag-intermezzo","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56656","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56958,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56656\/revisions\/56958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}