{"id":126811,"date":"2023-09-02T09:24:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126811"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:28:57","slug":"one-the-house-in-the-middle-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/one-the-house-in-the-middle-of-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"One:  The House in the Middle of the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The House in the Middle of the Road<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>one<br \/>\n(tw for domestic violence)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is a comfort in a porch light<br \/>\nHow it welcomes us into homes unfamiliar<br \/>\nFollowing the road signs of a new relationship and keeping between the caution lines<br \/>\nWe process the yellow as warmth instead of warning<br \/>\nDon\u2019t see the pathway pre painted to swallow us whole<br \/>\nWe are drawn to the light<br \/>\nBecause we are taught that light is our salvation<br \/>\nCentered over a doorway like a third eye<br \/>\nWindows black like bars but we don\u2019t see the prison<br \/>\nJust the warmth overhead, like an angler fish, luring us in<br \/>\nBefore the door slams shut behind us and the beatings begin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/birk-enwald-pXxFMZ1yrFE-unsplash-819x1024.jpg\" width=\"431\" height=\"539\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House in the Middle of the Road one (tw for domestic violence) There is a comfort in a porch light How it welcomes us into homes unfamiliar Following the road signs of a new relationship and keeping between the caution lines We process the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3239,"featured_media":127089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126811","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\/3239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127155,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126811\/revisions\/127155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}