{"id":88688,"date":"2021-06-26T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88688"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:50:13","slug":"hour-two-to-the-petitioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-two-to-the-petitioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Two &#8211; To the Petitioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To the Petitioner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your words pour<\/p>\n<p>like libation<\/p>\n<p>upon a shrine<\/p>\n<p>upon the bosom of a goddess<\/p>\n<p>as from an ancient gourd<\/p>\n<p>in the hands of an old <em>dibia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But, is that resignation I see<\/p>\n<p>in your downcast eyes?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let your libation<\/p>\n<p>flow unhindered<\/p>\n<p>for this deity<\/p>\n<p>the inhabitant of this shrine<\/p>\n<p>shall in time heed<\/p>\n<p>and shall your petition grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Petitioner &nbsp; Your words pour like libation upon a shrine upon the bosom of a goddess as from an ancient gourd in the hands of an old dibia. &nbsp; But, is that resignation I see in your downcast eyes? &nbsp; Let your libation&#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-88688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88688","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=88688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89087,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88688\/revisions\/89087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}