{"id":57964,"date":"2019-06-23T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57964"},"modified":"2019-06-23T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:54:06","slug":"to-suit-the-manipulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/to-suit-the-manipulators\/","title":{"rendered":"To Suit the Manipulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the pregnant moon<\/p>\n<p>has birthed the darkest hours<\/p>\n<p>before aurora rises they pursue<\/p>\n<p>the creatures of the night<\/p>\n<p>hiding from the light<\/p>\n<p>innocents hounded<\/p>\n<p>the cliff&#8217;s edge cloaked<\/p>\n<p>terror&#8217;s vicious fangs<\/p>\n<p>seize their necks<\/p>\n<p>blood flows<\/p>\n<p>hot and quick<\/p>\n<p>to stain the scorched earth<\/p>\n<p>that once was verdant<\/p>\n<p>lush with fruit ripe and ready<\/p>\n<p>for plucking from vines and heavy limbs<\/p>\n<p>Trees barren in the end times<\/p>\n<p>monsters rule the dispossessed<\/p>\n<p>God has forsaken them<\/p>\n<p>redemption promised has been revoked<\/p>\n<p>how many chances can a deity proclaim<\/p>\n<p>the story be rewritten? Book burned, vandalized<\/p>\n<p>words twisted, ideal clearly stated now revised<\/p>\n<p>to suit the manipulators<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the pregnant moon has birthed the darkest hours before aurora rises they pursue the creatures of the night hiding from the light innocents hounded the cliff&#8217;s edge cloaked terror&#8217;s vicious fangs seize their necks blood flows hot and quick to stain the scorched earth that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57964","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\/1273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58701,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57964\/revisions\/58701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}