{"id":113249,"date":"2022-06-25T16:56:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113249"},"modified":"2022-06-25T16:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:56:59","slug":"hour-eight-riptide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-eight-riptide\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Eight &#8211; Riptide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Riptide<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>like a river after a storm<\/p>\n<p>strong, unseen currents<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>leave me gasping for breath<\/p>\n<p>for safety<\/p>\n<p>for some glimmer of hope<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the decision feels like a riptide<\/p>\n<p>searing the fabric of my assuredness<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and my solidity feels tenuous<\/p>\n<p>along this shoreline<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>my strong banks may shudder<\/p>\n<p>like a river after a storm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the decision feels like a riptide<\/p>\n<p>carrying survivors<\/p>\n<p>far away from shelter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>farther still \u2013 from the breasts<\/p>\n<p>of our grandmothers and aunties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Riptide &nbsp; like a river after a storm strong, unseen currents &nbsp; leave me gasping for breath for safety for some glimmer of hope &nbsp; the decision feels like a riptide searing the fabric of my assuredness &nbsp; and my solidity feels tenuous along&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249","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\/990"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113263,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249\/revisions\/113263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}