{"id":87922,"date":"2021-06-26T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87922"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:27:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:27:26","slug":"labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">The gloom and doom,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">With ink splattered on their face<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And elbows covered in grease<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Firelight sparkling behind their eyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A myriad of emotions and colours<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Peel the blackness tied on their eyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Peel the death and hunger<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Peel their shredded clothes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Bruised and cut and bleeding and burnt<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The rust of their blood<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And steel of their veins<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Pulsating, boiling, spilling<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hot red blood<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And running to their blood shot eyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And bloody parched lips<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Lips scarlet with alcohol<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Knuckles purple with want<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And crying tears of hunger<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0Streaked with blood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gloom and doom, With ink splattered on their face And elbows covered in grease Firelight sparkling behind their eyes A myriad of emotions and colours Peel the blackness tied on their eyes Peel the death and hunger Peel their shredded clothes Bruised and cut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87922","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\/1596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90445,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87922\/revisions\/90445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}