{"id":127771,"date":"2023-09-02T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127771"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:08:28","slug":"behindcloseddoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/behindcloseddoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind Closed Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cw: abuse coached in metaphor, similar body horror to the previous poem<\/p>\n<p>Behind close doors, it comes out &#8211;<br \/>\nall those things you never show<br \/>\nto anyone but the canary,<br \/>\nturned useless from a lack of voice.<br \/>\nAfter all, nobody would believe it,<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s your canary, so it&#8217;s your right:<br \/>\nto pluck out every feather in its wings,<br \/>\nand store it in a too-tight cage<br \/>\nand tell it that it&#8217;s all its fault.<br \/>\nYou wouldn&#8217;t hurt it if it<br \/>\nwasn&#8217;t such a failure, wasn&#8217;t so bad;<br \/>\nyou try so hard, you see,<br \/>\nbut it just brings out<br \/>\nall the worst in you.<\/p>\n<p>And the canary wants to scream,<br \/>\nbut all the gas and smoke ruined it.<br \/>\nSo when you rip out its heart<br \/>\nand tell it to look you in the eyes<br \/>\nwhile you devour all its innocence,<br \/>\nit says nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cw: abuse coached in metaphor, similar body horror to the previous poem Behind close doors, it comes out &#8211; all those things you never show to anyone but the canary, turned useless from a lack of voice. After all, nobody would believe it, and it&#8217;s&#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-127771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127771","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=127771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127831,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127771\/revisions\/127831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}