{"id":10365,"date":"2015-06-13T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T22:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=10365"},"modified":"2015-06-13T18:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T22:13:54","slug":"10-autobiography-of-a-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/10-autobiography-of-a-body\/","title":{"rendered":"#10 Autobiography of a Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Anatomy is<br \/>\na peculiar thing.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t get<br \/>\nto choose it<br \/>\nand yet end up<br \/>\nbeing judged for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Too short, too tall,<br \/>\ntoo asymmetrical, too disproportional,<br \/>\ntoo feminine, too masculine.<br \/>\nToo human?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I was born not-too-tall,<br \/>\nwith little feet and tiny toes,<br \/>\nbut not-too-short fingers.<br \/>\nBlue eyes (from my mother),<br \/>\nthat I wished were<br \/>\nmy father&#8217;s green instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I am all natural, organic,<br \/>\nindeed, as far as<br \/>\nintervention goes.<br \/>\nWithout extensions, optical<br \/>\nor technical<br \/>\nor acrylic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Except my hair&#8217;s<br \/>\ninfernal colour<br \/>\napplied externally<br \/>\nonce a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anatomy is a peculiar thing. We don&#8217;t get to choose it and yet end up being judged for it. Too short, too tall, too asymmetrical, too disproportional, too feminine, too masculine. Too human? I was born not-too-tall, with little feet and tiny toes, but not-too-short&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[745,747,746],"class_list":["post-10365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-anatomy","tag-autobiography","tag-body"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365","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\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10439,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365\/revisions\/10439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}