{"id":56824,"date":"2019-06-23T05:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56824"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:33:50","slug":"the-demise-of-shere-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-demise-of-shere-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Demise of Shere Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dark green of the jungle cloaks my presence<br \/>\nThick vegetation dampens the noise of my cries<br \/>\nMy surroundings hide me in fear of what I could do<br \/>\nBut I can\u2019t move, my might suppressed by traps<\/p>\n<p>The King of the Jungle, how far below I have fallen<br \/>\nThe flesh that remains is desert dry and exhausted<br \/>\nMy ember brown eyes have melted into a sesame<br \/>\nMy once restless tail is now a glorified fly swatter<\/p>\n<p>The monkeys cry in terror in the dark canopy above<br \/>\nI am idle for I am nothing more than an empty gun<br \/>\nAge has humbled my sight and my fur has faded<br \/>\nThe shadows mock my rule and plan a coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat<\/p>\n<p>The climax of my role as the apex predator has eroded my divine frame and left me hollowed<br \/>\nThe cool, chocolatey earth below offers comfort as the soldier-like ants come to finish me off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dark green of the jungle cloaks my presence Thick vegetation dampens the noise of my cries My surroundings hide me in fear of what I could do But I can\u2019t move, my might suppressed by traps The King of the Jungle, how far below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56824","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\/1280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56835,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56824\/revisions\/56835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}