{"id":126768,"date":"2023-09-02T09:13:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126768"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:37:34","slug":"inthebackroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/inthebackroom\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Back Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cw: abstract body horror??? maybe??? idk being safer rather than sorrier<\/p>\n<p>The canary chokes on vellum flowers,<br \/>\nand it bleeds black ink.<br \/>\nIt swallows down each lettered rose,<br \/>\nturning yellow feathers gray like smoke.<br \/>\nThe canary forgot how to sing,<br \/>\nand so was locked away, forgotten &#8211;<br \/>\nno use to anyone like that,<br \/>\nvoiceless,<br \/>\nand so it chews up poetry<br \/>\nfolded into origami flowers,<br \/>\nas if the bouquet is salvation,<br \/>\nas if it can regain its voice,<br \/>\nas if it can sing again<br \/>\nvia suffocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cw: abstract body horror??? maybe??? idk being safer rather than sorrier The canary chokes on vellum flowers, and it bleeds black ink. It swallows down each lettered rose, turning yellow feathers gray like smoke. The canary forgot how to sing, and so was locked away,&#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-126768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126768","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=126768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127298,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126768\/revisions\/127298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}