{"id":99753,"date":"2021-06-27T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99753"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:18:08","slug":"books-thepoetrymarathon-prompthourseventeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/books-thepoetrymarathon-prompthourseventeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Books! #thepoetrymarathon #prompthourseventeen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBooks were safer than other people anyway.\u201d Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I buried myself in my books,<\/p>\n<p>Learning, early on,<\/p>\n<p>That people were sometimes poison<\/p>\n<p>And could damage the soul.<\/p>\n<p>My books became my friends<\/p>\n<p>In a world confused by rules<\/p>\n<p>Even now I find bits of my childhood:<\/p>\n<p>A feather here, a flower there,<\/p>\n<p>A leaf pressed flat among the pages.<\/p>\n<p>Those are my friends,<\/p>\n<p>The ones that keep me from screaming<\/p>\n<p>When people get too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBooks were safer than other people anyway.\u201d Neil Gaiman &nbsp; So I buried myself in my books, Learning, early on, That people were sometimes poison And could damage the soul. My books became my friends In a world confused by rules Even now I find&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,5],"tags":[4101,15,10],"class_list":["post-99753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2021poetrymarathon","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99753","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\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99775,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99753\/revisions\/99775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}