{"id":12253,"date":"2015-06-14T00:06:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12253"},"modified":"2015-06-14T00:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:06:59","slug":"i-try-not-to-think-about-1524","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/i-try-not-to-think-about-1524\/","title":{"rendered":"I Try Not to Think About #15\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I Try Not to Think About<\/p>\n<p>the private jokes we shared<br \/>\nour favorite pink pajamas on Christmas morning<br \/>\nsleeping in the old white Chevy<br \/>\ntouching tongues because it felt funny<br \/>\ngiggling till we couldn\u2019t catch our breath<br \/>\nfighting over the blankets at grandma\u2019s<br \/>\nyour morning grouchiness<br \/>\ngetting caught with boys in the house<br \/>\ndancing to Three Dog Night<br \/>\nsneaking down the television antennae<br \/>\nand into the freedom of a summer night<br \/>\nlate bonfire bashes at \u201cthe tree\u201d<br \/>\nsneaking in drunk after curfew<br \/>\nsharing the stick shift, dark green Vega<br \/>\nlocking the keys in the car at the<br \/>\nSteve Miller Band concert<br \/>\ncrying together after your abortion<br \/>\nholding your head in my lap<br \/>\nwhile you sobbed over something<br \/>\nI couldn\u2019t change<br \/>\nfor the first time<br \/>\nof many more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Try Not to Think About the private jokes we shared our favorite pink pajamas on Christmas morning sleeping in the old white Chevy touching tongues because it felt funny giggling till we couldn\u2019t catch our breath fighting over the blankets at grandma\u2019s your morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253","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\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12259,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253\/revisions\/12259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}