{"id":126851,"date":"2023-09-02T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126851"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:18:16","slug":"suffering-past-after-diana-khoi-nguyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/suffering-past-after-diana-khoi-nguyen\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffering Past &#8211; after Diana Khoi Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"card-subtitle\" data-v-6ee59ef1=\"\"><span class=\"long line\">We wear our past like too tight sweaters.<br \/>\nWe dance at parties, smiling large and bold<br \/>\nwhile our past hangs on our shoulders<br \/>\nshowing stains and holes cut in tears.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I try to leave the house without them<br \/>\nbut they chase me like<br \/>\ncrazed liquored up weasels,<br \/>\nsnapping at my heels,<br \/>\nspitting my own tears back at me.<\/p>\n<p>We must come to terms with our past<br \/>\ntransform it into our future,<br \/>\ntwisting it like red licorice<br \/>\ngrasped in little fingers turning and turning<br \/>\nit straight.<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wear our past like too tight sweaters. We dance at parties, smiling large and bold while our past hangs on our shoulders showing stains and holes cut in tears. I try to leave the house without them but they chase me like crazed liquored&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126851","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\/4907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127010,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126851\/revisions\/127010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}