{"id":70004,"date":"2020-06-27T18:58:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70004"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:58:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:58:50","slug":"warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should have seen them coming<br \/>\nI heard them howling for hours<br \/>\nTheir steamy breath tickling my ears<br \/>\nI wasn&#8217;t afraid<br \/>\nPer se<br \/>\nI was a witch and I had the means to end them<br \/>\nI could take down two hellhounds at a time<br \/>\nUsing my blades<br \/>\nEarth<br \/>\nAnd<br \/>\nFire<br \/>\nI could have swung them<br \/>\nLanding them right between<br \/>\nThose ugly mutts\u2019 eyes<br \/>\nBut I wondered<br \/>\nWith all that I&#8217;ve done<br \/>\nAll the people I&#8217;ve hurt<br \/>\nAll the creatures I tormented<br \/>\nShould I fight?<br \/>\nShould I wave my hands<br \/>\nTo ensure my survival?<br \/>\nMaybe I should accept what was coming for me<br \/>\nMaybe I should let fate have her way<br \/>\nTheir paws slammed into the ground behind me<br \/>\nShaking the very foundations<br \/>\nI flinched<br \/>\nFoamy drool dripped onto my shoulder<br \/>\nIf I was going to fight<br \/>\nI would have to move<br \/>\nBut if I wanted to lay down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have seen them coming I heard them howling for hours Their steamy breath tickling my ears I wasn&#8217;t afraid Per se I was a witch and I had the means to end them I could take down two hellhounds at a time Using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70004","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\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70006,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70004\/revisions\/70006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}