{"id":100648,"date":"2021-06-27T03:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100648"},"modified":"2022-06-28T02:43:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T06:43:02","slug":"self-portrait-prompt-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/self-portrait-prompt-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Portrait- Prompt 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imperfections<br \/>\nare noticeable first<\/p>\n<p>Beauty isn&#8217;t a requirement<br \/>\nit was a temporary perk<\/p>\n<p>one now discounted<br \/>\nas looks invade<br \/>\nfragility<br \/>\neverything<br \/>\nis magnified<br \/>\nhere<\/p>\n<p>I have<br \/>\nalways struggled with my body<br \/>\neven then I saw myself<br \/>\nbigger than I was<br \/>\nbreast and feet size<br \/>\nmade me stuff and shrink<\/p>\n<p>the way my bone stuck out in the center of my chest<br \/>\nmade me want to cover up<\/p>\n<p>my mother learned this<br \/>\nof me<\/p>\n<p>I can barely see<br \/>\nwithout glasses<br \/>\neven blind imperfections<br \/>\nremain magnified<\/p>\n<p>she wanted me to believe something else<\/p>\n<p>There is always a gold lining<br \/>\nin disappointment<br \/>\nin body<br \/>\nin personal journeys<\/p>\n<p>Getting right<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t the end of my ambition<br \/>\nparts have to accept these emotions<br \/>\nin order to live<br \/>\nto thrive<\/p>\n<p>I learned to avoid mirrors<br \/>\ntake scarce selfies<br \/>\nand work more on my inside<\/p>\n<p>Outside is only surface<\/p>\n<p>the light from within<br \/>\nis what lives on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperfections are noticeable first Beauty isn&#8217;t a requirement it was a temporary perk one now discounted as looks invade fragility everything is magnified here I have always struggled with my body even then I saw myself bigger than I was breast and feet size made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100648","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124021,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100648\/revisions\/124021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}