{"id":112978,"date":"2022-06-25T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112978"},"modified":"2022-06-26T01:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:38:16","slug":"when-i-was-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/when-i-was-26\/","title":{"rendered":"When I was 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the moon<br \/>\nin sand, ran away, lost in the redwood<br \/>\nforest of Sonoma, used my hair<br \/>\nas a pillow, followed a lonely dream. <\/p>\n<p>When I was 26, I found a sea turtle<br \/>\nshell in the forbidden woods<br \/>\nof Hunting Island. I found courage. <\/p>\n<p>When I was 26, I touched the stage,<br \/>\npalm flat, awe in my heart.<br \/>\nNear and far, near and far.<br \/>\nYes, Carol Ann, I hear you. <\/p>\n<p>When I was 26, a silk skirt<br \/>\nheld me close, a strike through,<br \/>\nan unfamiliar mouth with unfamiliar lips,<br \/>\na wish on wild feathers. <\/p>\n<p>When I was 26, Angela became translucent<br \/>\nlike stained glass in an abandoned<br \/>\nchapel, like a ghost, like cataracts. <\/p>\n<p>When I was 26, I felt, I swam.<br \/>\nI beamed, braved, held my heart<br \/>\nin my hands like an urchin.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the moon in sand, ran away, lost in the redwood forest of Sonoma, used my hair as a pillow, followed a lonely dream. When I was 26, I found a sea turtle shell in the forbidden woods of Hunting Island. I found courage&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112978","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119031,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112978\/revisions\/119031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}