{"id":85,"date":"1985-02-07T08:52:23","date_gmt":"1985-02-07T16:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:16:39","slug":"the-sleuth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/02\/07\/the-sleuth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sleuth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eye for an<br \/>\nEye for an<br \/>\nEye<br \/>\nFor I<br \/>\nKilled by the sword<br \/>\nTo die by the sword.<br \/>\nI died and<br \/>\nI died and<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll die to try<br \/>\nNot to die<br \/>\nFor to need<br \/>\nNor have to die.<\/p>\n<p>Tooth for a<br \/>\nTooth for the<br \/>\nTeeth are fangs:<br \/>\nBiting truth;<br \/>\nSpiting truth;<br \/>\nHide the sleuth<br \/>\nThat I am.<br \/>\nKill the sleuth<br \/>\nKilling sleuths,<br \/>\nSo the sleuth<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t die.<br \/>\nMany deaths;<br \/>\nMore deaths;<br \/>\nToo many deaths<br \/>\nHas it died.<\/p>\n<p>Eye for an<br \/>\nEye for an<br \/>\nEye<br \/>\nFor I<br \/>\nWilled by the mind<br \/>\nTo lie by the mind.<br \/>\nIt lied and<br \/>\nIt lied and<br \/>\nIt lived the lie,<br \/>\nNot to live,<br \/>\nNot to die,<br \/>\nNor even try.<\/p>\n<p>Tooth for a<br \/>\nTooth for the<br \/>\nTeeth pass words:<br \/>\nBiting words;<br \/>\nSpiting words;<br \/>\nPass the curse<br \/>\nThat you have.<br \/>\nWords are deeds;<br \/>\nThoughts are deeds;<br \/>\nWhen do you<br \/>\nTake heed<br \/>\nOf the truth<br \/>\nOf the sleuth<br \/>\nIn the life that<br \/>\nYou lead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eye for an<br \/> Eye for an<br \/> Eye<br \/> For I<br \/> Killed by the sword<br \/> To die by the sword.<br \/> I died and<br \/> I died and<br \/> I&#8217;ll die to try<br \/> Not to die<br \/> For to need<br \/> Nor have to die.<\/p>\n<p>Tooth for a<br \/> Tooth for the<br \/> Teeth are fangs:<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}