{"id":100681,"date":"2021-06-27T03:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100681"},"modified":"2021-06-27T03:29:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:29:15","slug":"19-self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/19-self-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"19. Self Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a grieving thing<br \/>\nmonsters shushing stars<br \/>\nunder my tongue.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather just be silent<br \/>\nbut my silence screams for audience<br \/>\nand calls the Monster&#8217;s war.<\/p>\n<p>Stars surrender<br \/>\nhide in vocal folds<br \/>\nslide all the way down back&#8230;<br \/>\nescape.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I am funny.<br \/>\nGrief is not funny.<br \/>\nMonsters shushing<br \/>\nstars protecting grief<br \/>\nare sometimes funny.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a balancing act.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no good on the tight rope.<\/p>\n<p>Put your sunglasses on<br \/>\nbefore I open my mouth.<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_210626_211729_602.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a grieving thing monsters shushing stars under my tongue. I&#8217;d rather just be silent but my silence screams for audience and calls the Monster&#8217;s war. Stars surrender hide in vocal folds slide all the way down back&#8230; escape. Sometimes, I am funny. Grief is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100681","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100681"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100766,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100681\/revisions\/100766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}