{"id":127356,"date":"2023-09-02T09:47:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127356"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:51:04","slug":"doom-scrolling-an-epiphany-the-room-rises-to-meet-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/doom-scrolling-an-epiphany-the-room-rises-to-meet-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1: Doom-scrolling an epiphany: the room rises to meet me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/birk-enwald-pXxFMZ1yrFE-unsplash-819x1024-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/birk-enwald-pXxFMZ1yrFE-unsplash-819x1024-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/birk-enwald-pXxFMZ1yrFE-unsplash-819x1024-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/birk-enwald-pXxFMZ1yrFE-unsplash-819x1024-1.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><br \/>\nDoom-scrolling I nightly travel without moving<br \/>\nWishing time away<br \/>\nWishing myself away<br \/>\nWishing me to be any me but ME<br \/>\nDoom-scrolling I saw a tiny house in the woods<br \/>\nWishing myself elsewhere<br \/>\nIn that place, that time, that life<br \/>\nThat life &#8211; that me that would never be *me*<br \/>\nDoom-scrolling I saw a writers hut<br \/>\nWishing myself in it, worthy<br \/>\nIn my mind, my heart, my soul<br \/>\nDoom-scrolling I saw it rolling easily towards the house<br \/>\nWishing things were straight and easy<br \/>\nIn a place made to fit, made for ease, made for understanding<br \/>\nAnd in that moment<br \/>\nIn knew<br \/>\nDesire and Rage and Sorrow and Hope<br \/>\nLonging and Envy and Sadness and so SO much grief<br \/>\nFor that which<br \/>\nIs not<br \/>\nWas not<br \/>\nCould not be<br \/>\nFor the shape of that which never was<br \/>\nAll crystallised in the idea, the image, the video-reel, of of a writers cabin on rails<br \/>\nTaking itself home at night to a place that was prepared for it<br \/>\nAnd I pause and weep brief silent tears<br \/>\nAnd breathing in<br \/>\nLet out, let go<br \/>\nAnd scroll on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doom-scrolling I nightly travel without moving Wishing time away Wishing myself away Wishing me to be any me but ME Doom-scrolling I saw a tiny house in the woods Wishing myself elsewhere In that place, that time, that life That life &#8211; that me that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127356","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\/4375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127450,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127356\/revisions\/127450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}