{"id":71242,"date":"2020-06-27T20:57:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71242"},"modified":"2020-07-11T06:56:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T10:56:40","slug":"12-persona-poem-john-wick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/12-persona-poem-john-wick\/","title":{"rendered":"12.  PERSONA POEM: JOHN WICK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am John Wick and you may have seen my movie,<\/p>\n<p>but here is my story, in poetic poetry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was an assassin, but had given up the criminal life,<\/p>\n<p>so that I can be with my love, my wife.<\/p>\n<p>She then became ill, died and just like that she was gone,<\/p>\n<p>gifting me a dog, to make it bearable to mourn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mafia stole my Camaro and my dog they killed.<\/p>\n<p>They awoke the devil in me, that was once stilled.<\/p>\n<p>I declared war and prepared myself for revenge,<\/p>\n<p>to get back my car, and my puppy to avenge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The body count rise as I kill and fight.<\/p>\n<p>Beware, you thieves that had unjustly trampled on my right.<\/p>\n<p>Safety and honour is secured as I check into Hotel Continental,<\/p>\n<p>but my war cry leads me to break the rules so fundamental.<\/p>\n<p>I kill all the baddies and retrieve my car,<\/p>\n<p>you should not have messed with me, a fighting persona.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it does not end there, there is a twist to my story,<\/p>\n<p>Tune into next years marathon poetry,<\/p>\n<p>when all will be revealed,<\/p>\n<p>in John Wick Chapters Two and Three!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am John Wick and you may have seen my movie, but here is my story, in poetic poetry. &nbsp; I was an assassin, but had given up the criminal life, so that I can be with my love, my wife. She then became ill,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242","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\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78496,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242\/revisions\/78496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}