{"id":108693,"date":"2022-06-25T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108693"},"modified":"2022-06-25T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:32:47","slug":"poem-3-la-la-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/poem-3-la-la-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 3. La La Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We call out to you<br \/>\nthe angels under our tongues<br \/>\nspeaking in a language<br \/>\nit has been said that you know.<br \/>\nWe have been told that you know.<\/p>\n<p>We lay on our face<br \/>\nwaiting for your responses.<br \/>\nWe lay on our face.<br \/>\nWe push mud into our ears.<br \/>\nWe grind sand into our eyes<\/p>\n<p>hope our souls are wrong<br \/>\neven when we know that aren&#8217;t<br \/>\nwhen the sky spits out<br \/>\nterror, hate, dead small children&#8230;<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t speak angel&#8217;s language.<\/p>\n<p>Go back to where men<br \/>\ncreated you. These tongues<br \/>\nare ours. We speak the<br \/>\nlanguage of angels now. We<br \/>\nspeak and answer our own calls.<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_220625_052949_858.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We call out to you the angels under our tongues speaking in a language it has been said that you know. We have been told that you know. We lay on our face waiting for your responses. We lay on our face. We push mud&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108693","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108737,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108693\/revisions\/108737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}