{"id":64273,"date":"2020-06-27T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64273"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:02:37","slug":"a-strangers-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-strangers-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stranger’s Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Those swirling mists beckoned like a stranger’s kiss
\nFear wracked the warrior who hungered for eternal bliss
\nTired from a life of constant blood and battle pain
\nHe’d fought against demons and black tyrants in vain
\nThe seer gave him one final quest to rest his weary heart
\nA golden tropical fruit in the world Ghenna slimy and tart
\nHe’d have to brave the vampire flies in a forest so thick
\nThat not a drop of sunlight reached a floor so black and slick
\nBut the fruit was such a priceless reward for a dangerous task
\nA kingdom was his, draped in silky clouds beyond the Evermore Pass
\nHe only had to risk a trip into the shimmering gate that held his fate
\nOne last glance backward, then he stepped into a light blindingly great<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those swirling mists beckoned like a stranger’s kiss Fear wracked the warrior who hungered for eternal bliss Tired from a life of constant blood and battle pain He’d fought against demons and black tyrants in vain The seer gave him one final quest to rest…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64273","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\/1065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64295,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64273\/revisions\/64295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}