{"id":101768,"date":"2021-06-27T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101768"},"modified":"2021-06-27T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:44:09","slug":"the-house-behind-glass-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-house-behind-glass-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"The house behind glass walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The house behind glass walls<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I groom my grass, push the blades<\/p>\n<p>to the side and expose the dirt.<\/p>\n<p>I point my finger and drag,<\/p>\n<p>tracing a circle in the dust.<\/p>\n<p>I watch ants slink by, snails pull<\/p>\n<p>their bodies and make their spirals,<\/p>\n<p>mazes that never end. The butterfly<\/p>\n<p>floats by, wings quickly flapping,<\/p>\n<p>preparing to land on the purple<\/p>\n<p>clover perched above the earth,<\/p>\n<p>I grab my cage, turn it, poised<\/p>\n<p>to capture. Slowly I inch,<\/p>\n<p>new house in hand, then zoom,<\/p>\n<p>catching air on my way down.<\/p>\n<p>I leave the glass and creep<\/p>\n<p>back, and watch it flutter,<\/p>\n<p>fly into the walls, trying<\/p>\n<p>to reach the sky, same as I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The house behind glass walls &nbsp; I groom my grass, push the blades to the side and expose the dirt. I point my finger and drag, tracing a circle in the dust. I watch ants slink by, snails pull their bodies and make their spirals,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101768","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102093,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101768\/revisions\/102093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}