{"id":10487,"date":"2015-06-13T18:22:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T22:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=10487"},"modified":"2015-06-13T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T22:22:33","slug":"hour-nine-autobiography-of-a-face-prompt-untitled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-nine-autobiography-of-a-face-prompt-untitled\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Nine Autobiography of a face prompt (Untitled)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t do it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will not write another woman&#8217;s poem<\/p>\n<p>any more than I will wear another woman&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is my voice,<\/p>\n<p>my words are my person-hood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Buddha suggests that, in the time before my birth,<\/p>\n<p>I was no one. I merely <i>was.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Watcher-Behind-My-Eyes,<\/p>\n<p>nameless, thoughtless, full of empty<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but then! I tore screaming into the conscious world<\/p>\n<p>on a spume of blood and light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since then I have been Sara,<\/p>\n<p>fought for and won,<\/p>\n<p>and this has been my birthright:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to say my own words, tell my own story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t do it! &nbsp; I will not write another woman&#8217;s poem any more than I will wear another woman&#8217;s face. &nbsp; This is my voice, my words are my person-hood. &nbsp; Buddha suggests that, in the time before my birth, I was no one&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487","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\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10493,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions\/10493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}