{"id":94414,"date":"2021-06-26T17:25:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94414"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:25:30","slug":"hour-9-the-mermaid-walks-text-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-9-the-mermaid-walks-text-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9 &#8211; The Mermaid Walks (text prompt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">I never loved him<\/p>\n<p>Just the idea of being him<\/p>\n<p>Or like him<\/p>\n<p>With his\u00a0<em>legs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those legs that could<\/p>\n<p>Do anything.<\/p>\n<p>The rumors got it twisted,<\/p>\n<p>dunno why the witch thought<\/p>\n<p>That I was in love with a stranger<\/p>\n<p>Or that three days was enough to try<\/p>\n<p>The legs she spelled into existence.<\/p>\n<p>Every step is hell on earth to me<\/p>\n<p>Yet it&#8217;s worth it to dance a bit<\/p>\n<p>And run across the sands<\/p>\n<p>The sun is setting sadly<\/p>\n<p>If I don&#8217;t do this I guess&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to return to the sea<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to bite the bullet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to kiss the boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never loved him Just the idea of being him Or like him With his\u00a0legs Those legs that could Do anything. The rumors got it twisted, dunno why the witch thought That I was in love with a stranger Or that three days was enough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94414","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\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94664,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94414\/revisions\/94664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}