{"id":76157,"date":"2020-06-28T08:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76157"},"modified":"2020-07-01T04:31:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:31:33","slug":"23-nudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/23-nudge\/","title":{"rendered":"# 23 Nudge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, hello there Miss,<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to introduce myself,<\/p>\n<p>I am my master&#8217;s Hyde, the devil on her shoulder,<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the fun one in the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>You seem shocked,<\/p>\n<p>she does play the goody-two-shoes part well,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give her that,<\/p>\n<p>Although, it was my idea, you know, social pretenses and all,<\/p>\n<p>We worked well&#8230;until now.<\/p>\n<p>You see, she has great potential,<\/p>\n<p>She has a delicious darkness within,<\/p>\n<p>This stuff is of legends, it doesn&#8217;t happen often.<\/p>\n<p>I get shivers of excitement when she unleashes her imagination<\/p>\n<p>It is glorious, bloody, tantalizing, shocking,<\/p>\n<p>but she keeps it imprisoned, never makes it real<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like having a blockbuster script and no movie.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know they never assigned her an angel?<\/p>\n<p>Nope, it has always just been lonely little me,<\/p>\n<p>But they had a point, why waste resources,<\/p>\n<p>On such a perfect like psychotic sweetie?<\/p>\n<p>She runs from it, from me,<\/p>\n<p>but you can&#8217;t hide from the abyss of your soul,<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll find her way eventually, I suppose,<\/p>\n<p>but, you know, I do get so bored,<\/p>\n<p>So I mess with her dreams and whisper things in her ear,<\/p>\n<p>What? It <em>is<\/em> my job, after all,<\/p>\n<p>To give her a little nudge now and then,<\/p>\n<p>to help her embrace her true self,<\/p>\n<p>and unleash upon mankind the horror within.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Prachi S<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, hello there Miss, Allow me to introduce myself, I am my master&#8217;s Hyde, the devil on her shoulder, Basically, the fun one in the relationship. You seem shocked, she does play the goody-two-shoes part well, I&#8217;ll give her that, Although, it was my idea,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76157","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\/1442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77839,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76157\/revisions\/77839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}