{"id":330,"date":"2006-10-08T20:22:35","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T00:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/08\/delilah\/"},"modified":"2006-10-08T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T00:22:35","slug":"delilah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/08\/delilah\/","title":{"rendered":"Delilah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, wide-eyed innocence was her intent:<br \/>\nlike Salome, she had her own agenda;<br \/>\nyoung, sure: her smile, even her teeth were tender,<br \/>\nand waving hips her winning argument.<\/p>\n<p>In loving her was danger seldom seen:<br \/>\nHer kisses so inflamed my ardent sex<br \/>\nThat muscular control and pure reflex<br \/>\nMight crush her like an egg in ways obscene.<\/p>\n<p>Yet now her gentle fingers soothe my brow<br \/>\nAnd even gentler still, she&#8217;ll bathe my head<br \/>\nWith ungents sweet and cooling, balms of ice<br \/>\nand sharpened blades like feathers smooth entice<br \/>\nand tempt me with such sweetness into bed<br \/>\nthat I shall sleep for shearing even now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, wide-eyed innocence was her intent: like Salome, she had her own agenda; young, sure: her smile, even her teeth were tender, and waving hips her winning argument. In loving her was danger seldom seen: Her kisses so inflamed my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/08\/delilah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-sonnets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}