{"id":68768,"date":"2020-06-27T17:37:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68768"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:37:44","slug":"hour-9-prompt-9-death-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-9-prompt-9-death-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9, Prompt 9 Death in Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-68977\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/952b5c631c622f55266e4ced81f57b1fe9134602v2_hq-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/952b5c631c622f55266e4ced81f57b1fe9134602v2_hq-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/952b5c631c622f55266e4ced81f57b1fe9134602v2_hq.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Death wore a mask of fireflies when he arrived.<br \/>\nAt his command, a cloak of butterflies clung to my shoulders,<br \/>\nfluttering, creating an iridescent heat,<br \/>\nan indigo flame,<br \/>\nan all but strange romance.<\/p>\n<p>Death&#8217;s love was heat in a bottle,<br \/>\nocean kisses, smothering and salty &#8211;<br \/>\noxygen deprived, suffocatingly sweet,<br \/>\nI never knew a safe word.<\/p>\n<p>Death proposed on bended knee,<br \/>\npresenting an onyx stone, infused with his blood.<br \/>\nSimply inscribed: Forever.<\/p>\n<p>He always took me dancing.<br \/>\nHe always kept his promises,<\/p>\n<p>Together, we were never hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Death wore a mask of fireflies when he arrived. At his command, a cloak of butterflies clung to my shoulders, fluttering, creating an iridescent heat, an indigo flame, an all but strange romance. Death&#8217;s love was heat in a bottle, ocean kisses, smothering and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68768","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\/1302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68982,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68768\/revisions\/68982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}