{"id":100991,"date":"2021-06-27T04:02:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100991"},"modified":"2021-06-27T13:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T17:31:45","slug":"self-portrait-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/self-portrait-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extremes of who, what I am<br \/>\nDNA, culturally, nature\/nurture<br \/>\nall fun to puzzle piece together <\/p>\n<p>What my forebearers did, what<br \/>\nwas done to them, is historically<br \/>\nrecorded, reported, unresolved<\/p>\n<p>My detective skills sharpened<br \/>\nwith time, experience, dumb luck<br \/>\ncan be broken down precisely:<\/p>\n<p>Having descended from seafaring<br \/>\nVikings and diaspora Ashkenazi<br \/>\nmy wanderlust is DNA encoded<\/p>\n<p>So, also, my perpetual state of<br \/>\nwondering: should I stop now and<br \/>\npillage, or simply keep wandering.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2021<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd  <\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extremes of who, what I am DNA, culturally, nature\/nurture all fun to puzzle piece together What my forebearers did, what was done to them, is historically recorded, reported, unresolved My detective skills sharpened with time, experience, dumb luck can be broken down precisely: Having&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4725,4740,4726],"class_list":["post-100991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021hour19","tag-2021prompt19","tag-self-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100991","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103314,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100991\/revisions\/103314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}