{"id":969,"date":"2015-12-28T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2015-12-25T09:41:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T16:41:58","slug":"briars-by-mari-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"Briars by Mari Ness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/La_Belle_au_Bois_Dormant_-_fourth_of_six_engravings_by_Gustave_Dor\u00c3\u00a9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-971\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/La_Belle_au_Bois_Dormant_-_fourth_of_six_engravings_by_Gustave_Dor\u00c3\u00a9-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"La_Belle_au_Bois_Dormant_-_fourth_of_six_engravings_by_Gustave_Dor\u00c3\u00a9\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you<br \/>\nnever wonder, my love,<br \/>\nwhy your briars parted for me,<br \/>\nwhy I came to you<br \/>\nunscratched by thorns?<\/p>\n<p>Did you<br \/>\nnever glimpse, my love,<br \/>\nthe bones of princes,<br \/>\ncaught against<br \/>\nyour castle walls?<\/p>\n<p>I am<br \/>\nhalf ogre, my love.<br \/>\nMy mother consumes<br \/>\nthe flesh of children.<br \/>\nI steal kisses<br \/>\nfrom sleeping maidens,<br \/>\nand lick blood from<br \/>\ntheir tender lips.<\/p>\n<p>Seven<br \/>\nfairies<br \/>\nwatch us<br \/>\nas we dance.<\/p>\n<p>Come,<br \/>\nraise your fingers<br \/>\nto my lips.<br \/>\nYour roses cry out<br \/>\nfor water and blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Did you never wonder, my love, why your briars parted for me, why I came to you unscratched by thorns? Did you never glimpse, my love, the bones of princes, caught against your castle walls? I am half ogre, my love. My mother consumes the flesh of children. I steal kisses from sleeping maidens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}