{"id":70094,"date":"2020-06-27T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70094"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:13:08","slug":"lovers-in-the-forbidden-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/lovers-in-the-forbidden-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovers in the forbidden woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70099\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22FA5D33-7ECE-4466-8FF8-0C714DBE71E6-300x177.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22FA5D33-7ECE-4466-8FF8-0C714DBE71E6-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22FA5D33-7ECE-4466-8FF8-0C714DBE71E6.png 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Into the misty woods, I followed him.<\/p>\n<p>His dark black wings beat and rustled up the night air.<br \/>\nDrawn by passion, encouraged by curiosity, deeper and deeper we went until I questioned my sanity.<\/p>\n<p>Who would follow a winged stranger by moonlight?<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>An arm outstretched, reached back for me. Skin touching skin, electric currents reminded me why I followed.<\/p>\n<p>The mist parted to reveal the grotto we hoped to find \u2014 a place where lovers could me and find reprieve.<\/p>\n<p>He lay me on a bed of moss, his wings covering over my moonlight skin.<\/p>\n<p>I surrender to the moment<\/p>\n<p>to the guardian<\/p>\n<p>to the forest of lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Into the misty woods, I followed him. His dark black wings beat and rustled up the night air. Drawn by passion, encouraged by curiosity, deeper and deeper we went until I questioned my sanity. Who would follow a winged stranger by moonlight? Silence. An arm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70094","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\/693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70180,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70094\/revisions\/70180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}