{"id":76182,"date":"2020-06-28T08:06:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76182"},"modified":"2020-06-28T08:06:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:06:42","slug":"midnight-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/midnight-troll\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Troll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The missing glasses case,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0The misplaced key.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The quarter just in hand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It disappeared at one, then two, then three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new coffee cup sprung off the shelf and smashed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A birthday gift, suddenly found in a buried stash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The menacing troll, I won\u2019t give a name,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each night at twelve, its always the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Its funny, its clever, to everyone but me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I wish he would go, disappear or flee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The trap is set,<\/p>\n<p>Time to boogie little man and jet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He knows better, of course, and slips away,<\/p>\n<p>See you again tomorrow, for more unwelcomed horseplay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Post 23, Hour 23<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The missing glasses case, \u00a0\u00a0The misplaced key. &nbsp; The quarter just in hand, It disappeared at one, then two, then three. &nbsp; The new coffee cup sprung off the shelf and smashed, A birthday gift, suddenly found in a buried stash. &nbsp; The menacing troll,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4011,273,4010],"class_list":["post-76182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-post23","tag-hour-23","tag-post-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76182","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\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76382,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76182\/revisions\/76382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}