{"id":113548,"date":"2022-06-25T17:16:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113548"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:16:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:16:35","slug":"hour-9-music-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-9-music-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9 &#8211; Music Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this skin is too big for me<br \/>\ni have tried to make it smaller<br \/>\nto be quiet and polite<br \/>\nout-of-the-way and good<\/p>\n<p>i want to be a music box<br \/>\nfolded into the neatest cube<br \/>\nand playing the sweetest tunes<br \/>\nand I would be so good at it <\/p>\n<p>but i would only have one song<br \/>\ni am more of a cassette player<br \/>\nif you teach me some songs<br \/>\ni will sing them back all day <\/p>\n<p>i hear a lot of songs:<br \/>\njingles from commercials and<br \/>\ntiktoks and the radio and CDs<br \/>\nbut there is a lot in between <\/p>\n<p>there is a lot of being a person<br \/>\nand it stresses me out<br \/>\na lot of talking and working and thinking<br \/>\nand trying to find the right song <\/p>\n<p>this skin is so big so empty<br \/>\nthat it echoes at night my heart<br \/>\nbeat in my ears my brain screaming<br \/>\nin a space its afraid to fill <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this skin is too big for me i have tried to make it smaller to be quiet and polite out-of-the-way and good i want to be a music box folded into the neatest cube and playing the sweetest tunes and I would be so good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113548","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113576,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113548\/revisions\/113576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}