{"id":70181,"date":"2020-06-27T19:15:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70181"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:15:23","slug":"we-are-called-to-the-vale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/we-are-called-to-the-vale\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Called to the Vale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(a warrior\u2019s song for Onweald, part of the fantasy series I have in publication; this is a combo of two prompts, the pictures from earlier (I think prompt #5) and prompt #11 for a fictional place)<\/p>\n<p>By Sandy Lender<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When burning fog of dragon\u2019s breath<\/p>\n<p>swirls in the Vale\u2019s pale morn<\/p>\n<p>take up your sword and shield, my lad.<\/p>\n<p>To the Vale, to war!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When reach your village the stench<\/p>\n<p>of man-flesh burnt and torn<\/p>\n<p>take up your sword and shield, my man.<\/p>\n<p>To the Vale, to war!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When farrier sees the burning rise<\/p>\n<p>and drops his tongs and forge<\/p>\n<p>take up your sword and shield, old man.<\/p>\n<p>To the Vale, to war!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the goddess\u2019 horn fills the air<\/p>\n<p>a harbinger of news forlorn<\/p>\n<p>take up your sword and shield, all men.<\/p>\n<p>To the Vale, to war!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(a warrior\u2019s song for Onweald, part of the fantasy series I have in publication; this is a combo of two prompts, the pictures from earlier (I think prompt #5) and prompt #11 for a fictional place) By Sandy Lender &nbsp; &nbsp; When burning fog of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[482],"class_list":["post-70181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-fantasy-genre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70181","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70193,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70181\/revisions\/70193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}