{"id":113371,"date":"2022-06-25T17:24:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113371"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:33:53","slug":"hour-9-camping-somewhere-for-some-reason-i-long-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-9-camping-somewhere-for-some-reason-i-long-forgot\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9 &#8211; Camping Somewhere for Some Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I scrape the remains of roasted marshmallow from my fingertips<br \/>\nwith greedy teeth and ignore the dirt of unwashed hands that comes<br \/>\nwith it. Someone hums a campfire song; I&#8217;ll still remember the words<br \/>\nwhen I&#8217;m thirty. Fingernails fill with dried sweat and sunscreen as I itch<br \/>\nat the morning&#8217;s bug bite. Sun-stained cheeks fade from rose to amber<br \/>\nand the crackle of the campfire smells like a home I&#8217;ve never been to.<br \/>\n&#8220;I can see the Big Dipper,&#8221; you say and point to Orien&#8217;s Belt. I don&#8217;t<br \/>\ncorrect you; not out of kindness, but because for the next decade I&#8217;ll<br \/>\npoint to Orien&#8217;s Belt and call it the Big Dipper too. I don&#8217;t remember<br \/>\nwhere we were or even why we were there, but I still remember the<br \/>\ntaste of the rapids and the way every caterpillar had a name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I scrape the remains of roasted marshmallow from my fingertips with greedy teeth and ignore the dirt of unwashed hands that comes with it. Someone hums a campfire song; I&#8217;ll still remember the words when I&#8217;m thirty. Fingernails fill with dried sweat and sunscreen as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113371","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\/4030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113833,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113371\/revisions\/113833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}