{"id":7100,"date":"2015-06-13T11:29:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7100"},"modified":"2015-06-13T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:29:54","slug":"212-the-spider-and-the-roach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/212-the-spider-and-the-roach\/","title":{"rendered":"(#2\/12): \u201cThe Spider And The Roach\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sensing me, it pauses.<\/p>\n<p>Uncertain of what I will do.<\/p>\n<p>But I am certain of my mercy.<\/p>\n<p>With overturned pill cup and stiff card,<\/p>\n<p>I trap it, carrying gently,<\/p>\n<p>My little arachnid,<\/p>\n<p>Out into the garden,<\/p>\n<p>Releasing it to the wild.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sensing me, it pauses.<\/p>\n<p>Uncertain of what I will do.<\/p>\n<p>But I am certain of my justice.<\/p>\n<p>With canister of \u2018Baygon\u2019 (\u201cBe gone!\u201d),<\/p>\n<p>I spray away, implacably.<\/p>\n<p>This loathsome pest,<\/p>\n<p>My chemical warfare,<\/p>\n<p>Now reduced to writhing agony.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is compassion, and justice, and mercy?<\/p>\n<p>Is it what it does, or how it smells, or <em>(shudder)<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p>How it looks?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the way of the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2015 Silvester Phua<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sensing me, it pauses. Uncertain of what I will do. But I am certain of my mercy. With overturned pill cup and stiff card, I trap it, carrying gently, My little arachnid, Out into the garden, Releasing it to the wild. &nbsp; Sensing me,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7640,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}