{"id":75303,"date":"2020-06-28T05:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75303"},"modified":"2020-06-28T05:44:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:44:56","slug":"burns-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/burns-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire #12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You loved playing with fire<br \/>\nAs a kid you burnt up all the candles<br \/>\nWe always ran out of matchboxes<br \/>\nAnd Pappa was not pleased<\/p>\n<p>Some lonely nights I\u2019d scream<br \/>\nWhen my fears would ignite<br \/>\nTake over the house of thoughts<br \/>\nAnd the flames would rise high<br \/>\nYou would come along with damp eye<br \/>\nAnd put out the fires in my mind<br \/>\nThe ones I kept starting<br \/>\nAnd did not know how to control<br \/>\nThey burnt my hands and heart<br \/>\nAnd I would hold onto your warmth<br \/>\nFall asleep with you on guard<br \/>\nProtecting me from the cold world outside.<\/p>\n<p>Your ashes are in the tin can<br \/>\nI\u2019m holding close as the curtains blaze<br \/>\nI started this fire like you sometimes did<br \/>\nThe house can fall, I need the warmth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You loved playing with fire As a kid you burnt up all the candles We always ran out of matchboxes And Pappa was not pleased Some lonely nights I\u2019d scream When my fears would ignite Take over the house of thoughts And the flames would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75303","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75306,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75303\/revisions\/75306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}