{"id":1805,"date":"2021-07-10T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2021-07-09T23:18:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T23:18:06","slug":"the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/10\/the-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bell rings and I stumble back to my corner,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collapsing on the stool, exhausted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blood and tears cover my face, streaming<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From red swollen eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breath ragged, heart racing as I replay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous round, the body blows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking my breath away and the flash<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the eyes from the fierce attack<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the low blow that left me stunned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hit after hit raining on me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All angles and sides with no respite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pain is deep, overwhelming,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I slump in the corner, nearly beaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ding!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I rise to fight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ding! The bell rings and I stumble back to my corner, Collapsing on the stool, exhausted. Blood and tears cover my face, streaming From red swollen eyes. Breath ragged, heart racing as I replay The previous round, the body blows Taking my breath away and the flash In the eyes from the fierce attack Following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/oscar-de-la-hoya-sits-in-the-corner-during-his-welterweight-boxing-C0T5HG.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}