{"id":87758,"date":"2021-06-26T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87758"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:08:26","slug":"hour-one-tongue-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-one-tongue-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour One &#8211; Tongue of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tongue of Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His uncouth tongue spits fire,<\/p>\n<p>Then it spits petrol inflaming the fire<\/p>\n<p>Encircling our enclave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His tongue unearths ghosts,<\/p>\n<p>Bitter ghosts roving<\/p>\n<p>In yesteryears\u2019 graveyards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They did not die in peace,<\/p>\n<p>They would not rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>So they angle for war.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet, citizens crave his tongue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Speak to us,\u2019 they scream.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And when he does,<\/p>\n<p>His tongue threatens genocide,<\/p>\n<p>Awakens\u00a0revisionists scavenging<\/p>\n<p>Dustbins for discarded morsels of history<\/p>\n<p>To feed their nihilistic appetite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This fire, if unquenched,<\/p>\n<p>Will leave no one unscathed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tongue of Fire &nbsp; His uncouth tongue spits fire, Then it spits petrol inflaming the fire Encircling our enclave. &nbsp; His tongue unearths ghosts, Bitter ghosts roving In yesteryears\u2019 graveyards. &nbsp; They did not die in peace, They would not rest in peace. So they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87758","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\/2685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88442,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87758\/revisions\/88442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}