{"id":119818,"date":"2022-06-26T03:29:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119818"},"modified":"2022-06-26T03:32:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:32:16","slug":"119818","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/119818\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bustling cities scare me<br \/>\n32 years ago, on Toronto streets<\/p>\n<p>There was space<br \/>\nNow we walk huddled on the sidewalk<br \/>\nAs if we know each other or come from the same home<br \/>\nYou stop and someone crashes into you<\/p>\n<p>Caught\u00a0 between the shades of condos<br \/>\nClose to the lake, the city is cold though it&#8217;s spring<br \/>\nTowering structures hide the sun<br \/>\nLeaves no space for warmth<\/p>\n<p>Food trucks line the street<br \/>\nDowntown is impersonal<br \/>\nNobody knows you or sees you<br \/>\nBarely any interaction with each other<br \/>\nAs crowrded street cars, busses and trains make their way to the burbs<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of this chaos<br \/>\nOne search for peace<br \/>\nEarplugs the answer<br \/>\nSurrounded by a whole hosts of people but<br \/>\nLost in the midst<br \/>\nI hate the city<br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_220626_032428_810.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bustling cities scare me 32 years ago, on Toronto streets There was space Now we walk huddled on the sidewalk As if we know each other or come from the same home You stop and someone crashes into you Caught\u00a0 between the shades of condos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119818","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\/4537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119882,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119818\/revisions\/119882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}