{"id":67083,"date":"2020-06-27T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67083"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:00:33","slug":"evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/evening\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a war out there.<br \/>\nEveryday I go out to meet it.<br \/>\nIt has become an everyday event,<br \/>\nleaving you behind<br \/>\nwith your beans and cornflowers,<br \/>\nleaving the dahlias you put<br \/>\nin a vase.  You ask me what time<br \/>\nI\u2019ll be heading home, to dinner,<br \/>\nto our places at the table<br \/>\nwhere I\u2019ll tell you who I killed,<br \/>\nhow they screamed in pain,<br \/>\nbled to death, and rose again.<br \/>\nYou ask me what time I\u2019d like<br \/>\nmy tea, and if I need a cushion<br \/>\nwhile I clean my knife and gun.<br \/>\nThe dahlias are sipping water,<br \/>\nnodding their heads in sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a war out there. Everyday I go out to meet it. It has become an everyday event, leaving you behind with your beans and cornflowers, leaving the dahlias you put in a vase. You ask me what time I\u2019ll be heading home, to dinner,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67083","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67616,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67083\/revisions\/67616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}