{"id":113854,"date":"2022-06-25T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113854"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:50:51","slug":"ponytail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ponytail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponytail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s daily<br \/>\nThe teeth<br \/>\nFingers<br \/>\nSand rakes?<br \/>\nWe have sand rakes?<\/p>\n<p>Stretching til a break<br \/>\nGnawing like a beaver<br \/>\nClawing like those buried alive seeking air.<\/p>\n<p>Big teeth<br \/>\nSmall hands<br \/>\nIs that 30 fingers?<br \/>\n30?<br \/>\nHow?<\/p>\n<p>Grabbing<br \/>\nPulling<br \/>\nScratching<\/p>\n<p>My scalp is a burning patch.<br \/>\nNo clear torch<br \/>\nBut sparks everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Enough!<\/p>\n<p>I put it in a ponytail.<br \/>\nNope.<br \/>\nThat just gives mom a handle.<br \/>\nBraid.<br \/>\nAll the same.<br \/>\nBun.  Classic ballet bun.<br \/>\nYeah.<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nNope.<br \/>\nThey are tearing it down.<\/p>\n<p>Arghhhh!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d shave it, but that is punishing me too.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d cut it in a pixie do.<br \/>\nBut mom forced me into those my whole childhood.<br \/>\nThe mere thought makes me want to vomit.<\/p>\n<p>For now I stick to the dodge.<br \/>\nSwooshing like a ninja<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s daily The teeth Fingers Sand rakes? We have sand rakes? Stretching til a break Gnawing like a beaver Clawing like those buried alive seeking air. Big teeth Small hands Is that 30 fingers? 30? How? Grabbing Pulling Scratching My scalp is a burning patch&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4287],"class_list":["post-113854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poem-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113854","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\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114041,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113854\/revisions\/114041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}