{"id":8757,"date":"2015-06-13T14:31:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:33:40","slug":"8757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/8757\/","title":{"rendered":"Baring Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The house was always the object of fear<br \/>\nThe foreboding tree out front<br \/>\nthat seemed hell bent on being creepy at all angles<br \/>\nAnd the smell&#8230;death.<br \/>\nOr what we imagined death smelled like<\/p>\n<p>The neighborhood kids would often dare one another<\/p>\n<p>Ding-Dong Ditch!<br \/>\nDing-Dong Ditch!!<br \/>\nDo It!<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t be a bitch!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, kids were vicious in 6th grade.<br \/>\nI remember one kid who gave in.<br \/>\nRunning away, he tripped on his overly baggy jeans<br \/>\nBloodying his JNCO&#8217;s from the knee all the way down<br \/>\nHis Converse were never the same again<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The house was always the object of fear The foreboding tree out front that seemed hell bent on being creepy at all angles And the smell&#8230;death. Or what we imagined death smelled like The neighborhood kids would often dare one another Ding-Dong Ditch! Ding-Dong Ditch!!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8916,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions\/8916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}