{"id":97799,"date":"2021-06-26T21:27:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97799"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:27:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:27:57","slug":"once-upon-a-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/once-upon-a-knock\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon A Knock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Once upon a knock<br \/>\nthat came to my<br \/>\ndoor<br \/>\nOne that I answered<br \/>\nbefore I could<br \/>\nimplore<br \/>\nWho stood there<br \/>\nin cloak with<br \/>\ndagger<br \/>\nBut the one that<br \/>\nwe all dread that<br \/>\nbackstabber<br \/>\nHe promised me<br \/>\nlife, long with<br \/>\nhope<br \/>\nBut he came<br \/>\ntonight saying<br \/>\nnope<br \/>\nI tried shutting<br \/>\nthe heavy front<br \/>\ndoor<br \/>\nBut my strength<br \/>\nhe did totally<br \/>\nignore<br \/>\nI tried to sob<br \/>\nto beg and<br \/>\nplead<br \/>\nHe spoke and said<br \/>\nthis is what you and I<br \/>\nagreed<br \/>\nI shouted no<br \/>\nI do not<br \/>\nremember<br \/>\nHis face grew<br \/>\ngrim and long<br \/>\nslender<br \/>\nHands began to<br \/>\nreach for me<br \/>\nthen<br \/>\nI ran away<br \/>\nand prayed deep<br \/>\namen<br \/>\nI was given a<br \/>\nnew chance to<br \/>\nlive<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know why<br \/>\nI had nothing left to<br \/>\ngive<br \/>\nHe shut the door<br \/>\nwith one last<br \/>\nglance<br \/>\nI knew not to<br \/>\nwaste this<br \/>\nchance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a knock that came to my door One that I answered before I could implore Who stood there in cloak with dagger But the one that we all dread that backstabber He promised me life, long with hope But he came tonight saying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4585,51],"class_list":["post-97799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-thirteentextprompt","tag-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97799","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\/1206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97969,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97799\/revisions\/97969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}