{"id":73036,"date":"2020-06-28T00:27:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73036"},"modified":"2020-06-28T00:27:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:27:32","slug":"hour-16-perfect-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-16-perfect-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 16, Perfect 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His other woman offers circuses;<br \/>\nI am his bread.<br \/>\nShe will never nourish or sustain<br \/>\nas I do. Though she lures him<br \/>\nwith her games, his hunger will bring him back.<\/p>\n<p>Our children fall prey<br \/>\nto her charms as well,<br \/>\nher empty promises of entertainment<br \/>\nthrough long and lonely furtive nights<br \/>\npull them from my arms.<\/p>\n<p>He will do with her<br \/>\nwhat he cannot do with me,<br \/>\nshopping for perfect gifts for hours<br \/>\nwith her feverish assistance,<br \/>\nneeding just a single word to find them.<\/p>\n<p>I will wait, for I am<br \/>\nfar more sturdy than she.<br \/>\nMy fragile rival will fall with the next<br \/>\nelectrical storm, an EMP blast<br \/>\nwill see her fade into the ether.<\/p>\n<p>My flesh will survive<br \/>\nher dark and bloody bytes.<br \/>\nI, his first, am patient,<br \/>\nfor I know her promised perfect 10<br \/>\nis a binary second to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His other woman offers circuses; I am his bread. She will never nourish or sustain as I do. Though she lures him with her games, his hunger will bring him back. Our children fall prey to her charms as well, her empty promises of entertainment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73036","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73100,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73036\/revisions\/73100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}