{"id":113050,"date":"2022-06-25T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113050"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:17:02","slug":"skin-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/skin-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve grown numb to beauty<br \/>\npreaching it&#8217;s worth from the shallows.<\/p>\n<p>Making a neat fist I shatter<br \/>\nmy vanity mirror, watching<br \/>\nthe shards fall into non-existence. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I\u2019ll start a revolt against<br \/>\nall the mirrors so eager<\/p>\n<p>to define our worth from<br \/>\none puny reflection given.<\/p>\n<p>Society\u2019s afraid of me telling girls that<br \/>\nI\u2019ve grown numb to beauty. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I\u2019ll start a revolt against<br \/>\nmy alter ego. Will happily lock<br \/>\nthe box myself as I <\/p>\n<p>rise to the sun where I belong,<br \/>\nbeautiful in my imperfect skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve grown numb to beauty preaching it&#8217;s worth from the shallows. Making a neat fist I shatter my vanity mirror, watching the shards fall into non-existence. Perhaps I\u2019ll start a revolt against all the mirrors so eager to define our worth from one puny reflection&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113050","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\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113071,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113050\/revisions\/113071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}