{"id":126973,"date":"2023-09-02T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126973"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:19:03","slug":"515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/515\/","title":{"rendered":"5:15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dreams swirl<\/p>\n

into the suction hole<\/p>\n

of memory.<\/p>\n

Emails shriek,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how<\/p>\n

many times<\/p>\n

you should shower!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Delete, delete,<\/p>\n

delete, delete.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even the dogs<\/p>\n

and the laborers<\/p>\n

remain asleep.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I check my pulse,<\/p>\n

feel the current<\/p>\n

course through<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

what remains<\/p>\n

of my veins.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Determined river,<\/p>\n

released from<\/p>\n

slumber\u2019s dam,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

shoves its way<\/p>\n

through the blockage<\/p>\n

and flows upstream,<\/p>\n

unencumbered.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

How many more days<\/p>\n

until it runs dry?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dreams swirl into the suction hole of memory. Emails shriek,   \u201cThis is how many times you should shower!\u201d   Delete, delete, delete, delete.   Even the dogs and the laborers remain asleep.   I check my pulse, feel the current course through   what…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126973","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\/4286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130745,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126973\/revisions\/130745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}