{"id":91767,"date":"2021-06-26T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91767"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:56:05","slug":"i-will-not-be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/i-will-not-be-there\/","title":{"rendered":"I WILL NOT BE THERE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my tribe rises,<br \/>\nI will not be there.<br \/>\nWhen they hoist the flags,<br \/>\nand draw their swords,<br \/>\nI will not be there.<br \/>\nWhen they play their pipes<br \/>\nand shout their oaths,<br \/>\nI will not be there.<br \/>\nWhen they call on their gods<br \/>\nand strike their chests,<br \/>\nwilling their demons<br \/>\nto leave the dark dens,<br \/>\nI will not be there.<br \/>\nWhen the slayer&#8217;s songs<br \/>\nring out in the hills<br \/>\nand victory burnishes<br \/>\nits dented, bloody shield,<br \/>\nI will not be there.<br \/>\nAnd then, when they are<br \/>\nfinally tired of their war,<br \/>\nand fall like the dead<br \/>\ninto their weary beds,<br \/>\nI will not be there.<\/p>\n<p>I will not be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my tribe rises, I will not be there. When they hoist the flags, and draw their swords, I will not be there. When they play their pipes and shout their oaths, I will not be there. When they call on their gods and strike&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91767","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91777,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91767\/revisions\/91777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}