{"id":71979,"date":"2020-06-27T21:55:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71979"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:55:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:55:28","slug":"9pm-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/9pm-3\/","title":{"rendered":"9pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rain poured down<br \/>\nas I dodged around trash<br \/>\nunder the cover of<br \/>\nmy umbrella<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t notice him until<br \/>\nI bumped into him as he<br \/>\nmaterialized from the<br \/>\nshadows of the<br \/>\nalley<\/p>\n<p>menacing and dark<br \/>\nhe didn&#8217;t scare me<br \/>\nalthough in hindsight<br \/>\nhe should have<\/p>\n<p>Momma warned me<br \/>\nabout guys like you<br \/>\nbut you don&#8217;t scare<br \/>\nme<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even know why I&#8217;m<br \/>\nhere talking to you, but my friend<br \/>\nsaid you could help me with my<br \/>\nproblem<\/p>\n<p>He held out his hand<br \/>\ncovered in scars<br \/>\ncovered in dried blood<br \/>\nwaiting for what was his<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all there<br \/>\nIm not going to lie to you<br \/>\ndo you have what I asked for<\/p>\n<p>He barely glanced at what<br \/>\nI handed him and held out<br \/>\na plain paper sack<\/p>\n<p>This will get your little job<br \/>\ndone; clean and simple<br \/>\nwear gloves and you&#8217;ll be fine<\/p>\n<p>I needed something quick,<br \/>\nI wasn&#8217;t sure<br \/>\nyou would be able to come<br \/>\nthrough for me,<br \/>\nyou did, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Once you do this-<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s no going back<br \/>\nyou will have killed someone<br \/>\nand if the cops find you<br \/>\nthey will put you in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain poured down as I dodged around trash under the cover of my umbrella I didn&#8217;t notice him until I bumped into him as he materialized from the shadows of the alley menacing and dark he didn&#8217;t scare me although in hindsight he should have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71979","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\/1290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71986,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71979\/revisions\/71986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}