{"id":108988,"date":"2022-06-25T11:51:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108988"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:32:15","slug":"watermelon-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/watermelon-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-110373\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23F5E64B-A1BD-4491-AF84-6114D340FBF9-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23F5E64B-A1BD-4491-AF84-6114D340FBF9-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23F5E64B-A1BD-4491-AF84-6114D340FBF9-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23F5E64B-A1BD-4491-AF84-6114D340FBF9-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23F5E64B-A1BD-4491-AF84-6114D340FBF9-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23F5E64B-A1BD-4491-AF84-6114D340FBF9.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Watermelon Seeds<\/p>\n<p>Swallowing a watermelon seed<br \/>\ntoday took me back to when<br \/>\nI was four, thought<br \/>\nthe seed would implant itself in my stomach<br \/>\nroots and tendrils infiltrating my body<br \/>\na nightmare, how comforting<br \/>\nit is to know that like watermelon seeds&#8211;<br \/>\nSwallowing trauma and pain<br \/>\nwill not truly root in me to fester<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I can choose what I hold onto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watermelon Seeds Swallowing a watermelon seed today took me back to when I was four, thought the seed would implant itself in my stomach roots and tendrils infiltrating my body a nightmare, how comforting it is to know that like watermelon seeds&#8211; Swallowing trauma and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108988","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\/4777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110440,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108988\/revisions\/110440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}