{"id":72487,"date":"2020-06-27T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72487"},"modified":"2020-06-27T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:14:07","slug":"poem-15-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-15-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why would you carry a body around?<br \/>\nYou know her now<br \/>\nYou can notify her kin.<\/p>\n<p>Why carry a body around?<br \/>\nPerhaps you engage in sin.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t.  It ain&#8217;t right.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t keep that thing there.<\/p>\n<p>Why carry a body?<br \/>\nIt must have disease.<br \/>\nIt has flies buzzing round.<\/p>\n<p>Let us burn it to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>We will give you a new cart.<br \/>\nAssume you meant for good.<\/p>\n<p>But he took his cart insisting I will bury her as I should.  <\/p>\n<p>He push his mule to thw desert.  No plan where to go.  Her childhood had been 2 months journey away.  Colorado, still several days.  The body would have to end its journey somewhere in the desert haze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would you carry a body around? You know her now You can notify her kin. Why carry a body around? Perhaps you engage in sin. It isn&#8217;t. It ain&#8217;t right. You can&#8217;t keep that thing there. Why carry a body? It must have disease&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72487","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\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72565,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72487\/revisions\/72565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}