{"id":99214,"date":"2021-06-27T00:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99214"},"modified":"2021-06-27T00:59:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:59:28","slug":"freaky-like-that-hour-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/freaky-like-that-hour-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Freaky Like That&#8211;Hour 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bugs would appear<\/p>\n<p>on the basketball court when<\/p>\n<p>the night lights came on at dusk<\/p>\n<p>Bats arrived next<\/p>\n<p>diving after the fat bugs<\/p>\n<p>We tricked the blind-as-a-bat<\/p>\n<p>bats by tossing pebbles<\/p>\n<p>up toward the lights<\/p>\n<p>A bat would swoop<\/p>\n<p>snatch the pebble<\/p>\n<p>then unfulfilled<\/p>\n<p>drop it<\/p>\n<p>on our heads<\/p>\n<p>I marveled at their mouse-like squeaks<\/p>\n<p>pitching radar high into the feast<\/p>\n<p>No one knew what I was talking about<\/p>\n<p>I could hear the high register of bats<\/p>\n<p>and was surprised to learn others couldn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m freaky like that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bugs would appear on the basketball court when the night lights came on at dusk Bats arrived next diving after the fat bugs We tricked the blind-as-a-bat bats by tossing pebbles up toward the lights A bat would swoop snatch the pebble then unfulfilled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99214","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99627,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99214\/revisions\/99627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}