{"id":110968,"date":"2022-06-25T14:10:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110968"},"modified":"2022-06-26T03:13:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:13:54","slug":"voices-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/voices-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stress,<br \/>\nI lurch,<br \/>\nI yell,<\/p>\n<p>and finally I\u2019m silent.<\/p>\n<p>This moment has taken advantage of me and<br \/>\nI have lost touch with my own voice.<\/p>\n<p>A voice which preaches empathy,<br \/>\nunderstanding,<br \/>\na gentle touch.<\/p>\n<p>This is my aspiration, yet<\/p>\n<p>I am new to this world<br \/>\nand that vulnerability sweeps<br \/>\nme away.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate to appear professional,<br \/>\nin control,<br \/>\ncompetent,<br \/>\nI embody those traits I despise.<\/p>\n<p>It is only when I slow down<br \/>\nand begin to release the control I have been<br \/>\ngrasping so tightly<\/p>\n<p>that I return to myself. <\/p>\n<p>A calm talk,<br \/>\na release of energy,<br \/>\na mountain of stress surmounted.<\/p>\n<p>I feel much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stress, I lurch, I yell, and finally I\u2019m silent. This moment has taken advantage of me and I have lost touch with my own voice. A voice which preaches empathy, understanding, a gentle touch. This is my aspiration, yet I am new to this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110968","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\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110975,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110968\/revisions\/110975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}