{"id":114319,"date":"2022-06-25T18:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114319"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:21:58","slug":"perspective-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/perspective-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>content warning: descriptive metaphors using mild gore and body horror<\/p>\n<p>i bite my tongue.<br \/>\ncopper-red and bitter acid<br \/>\ni make sure to swallow,<br \/>\nhold back.<br \/>\nmy own toxicity, reconsumed,<br \/>\njittering.<\/p>\n<p>i have spent so many years<br \/>\ncarving at my flesh.<br \/>\ni look into the mirror,<br \/>\nand do not recognize myself.<\/p>\n<p>it is slow. and painful.<br \/>\ni speak, now.<br \/>\nthe tongue that was there still remembers<br \/>\nand i taste the same<br \/>\ncopper-red and bitter acid,<br \/>\nblood and bile and adrenaline.<\/p>\n<p>i am gluing myself back together<br \/>\npiece by piece by piece<br \/>\nand when i open my eyes<br \/>\ni think i finally see me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>content warning: descriptive metaphors using mild gore and body horror i bite my tongue. copper-red and bitter acid i make sure to swallow, hold back. my own toxicity, reconsumed, jittering. i have spent so many years carving at my flesh. i look into the mirror,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114319","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\/4005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114509,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114319\/revisions\/114509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}