{"id":103056,"date":"2021-06-27T08:41:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=103056"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:41:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:41:22","slug":"hour-20-tell-your-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-20-tell-your-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 20 &#8211; Tell Your Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want my skin to show\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That I have <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lived.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Give me your stretch marks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunspots and tattoos, your<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scars and all your stories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tell me about that time\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the beach where you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Got so lost in conversation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You forgot to redo the sunscreen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want to hear why this<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Design jumped out at you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you were choosing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What to ink your body with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tell me about the dark moments,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The skinned knees, the<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Embarrassing injuries and the\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bruises you thought wouldn\u2019t heal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I do not want to go to the grave<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unblemished and pristine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each mark is a story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keep telling them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want my skin to show\u00a0 That I have lived. Give me your stretch marks, Sunspots and tattoos, your Scars and all your stories.\u00a0 &nbsp; Tell me about that time\u00a0 At the beach where you Got so lost in conversation You forgot to redo the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103056","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103063,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103056\/revisions\/103063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}