{"id":98004,"date":"2021-06-26T21:32:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98004"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:32:21","slug":"hour-13-the-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-13-the-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 13 &#8211; The Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She strides down with certainty:<br \/>\nhead held high,<br \/>\nhair whipped back<br \/>\nby the hot winds.<br \/>\nNo one bothers<br \/>\nto halt her advance.<br \/>\nYou usually have to haul<br \/>\nthe screaming and reluctant.<br \/>\nIf she wishes to descend,<br \/>\nso be it. <\/p>\n<p>She marches on the palace.<br \/>\nShe moves with serpentine grace<br \/>\nand a devilish gaze.<br \/>\nYou would know.<br \/>\nMortal souls do not cross<br \/>\nthe threshold of this place.<br \/>\nShe does so unhindered,<br \/>\nas fanged and taloned guards<br \/>\ncower in her wake.<br \/>\nYou lurk at a distance. <\/p>\n<p>She enters the throne<br \/>\nroom with faithful steps.<br \/>\nYou can hear the king laugh,<br \/>\nand imagine<br \/>\nher black eyes mirthful,<br \/>\ntortured and enchanting.<br \/>\nYou cannot imagine<br \/>\nthose abyssal eyes<br \/>\nbetraying any kind<br \/>\nof honesty or light. <\/p>\n<p>The world will shudder<br \/>\nwhen they emerge,<br \/>\narm in arm, perfect teeth<br \/>\nbared for the fatal bite.<br \/>\nA most terrible king,<br \/>\nand a vengeful commander.<br \/>\nThe darkness, firecast,<br \/>\ngrows like spreading wings<br \/>\nin the shadows<br \/>\nof these angels fallen.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She strides down with certainty: head held high, hair whipped back by the hot winds. No one bothers to halt her advance. You usually have to haul the screaming and reluctant. If she wishes to descend, so be it. She marches on the palace. She&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98004","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98012,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98004\/revisions\/98012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}