{"id":101416,"date":"2021-06-27T05:38:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101416"},"modified":"2021-06-30T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:42:01","slug":"hour-twenty-one-irregular-ode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-twenty-one-irregular-ode\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twenty-One, Irregular Ode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ode To My Scars<\/p>\n<p>Once, you were pink and puckered,<br \/>\ndrawing surrounding flesh up tight<br \/>\nagainst you, you needy whores,<br \/>\nbut you have since silvered and loosened,<br \/>\nreleasing your neighboring hostages<br \/>\nand gracefully fading into the background,<br \/>\nas good scars should.<\/p>\n<p>You had your purpose, knitting me whole<br \/>\nonce more after some truly messed up<br \/>\ns**t would have rent me apart, bleeding,<br \/>\nbut I can hold my own now, thank you.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re free to go,<br \/>\nthough I know you won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you are my bosom buddies,<br \/>\nbut the largest of you bisects my torso<br \/>\ninto upper and lower halves,<br \/>\na reminder of what I endured<br \/>\nto have my sons.<br \/>\nAt least you have the decency to smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ode To My Scars Once, you were pink and puckered, drawing surrounding flesh up tight against you, you needy whores, but you have since silvered and loosened, releasing your neighboring hostages and gracefully fading into the background, as good scars should. You had your purpose,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101416","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103877,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101416\/revisions\/103877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}