{"id":12780,"date":"2015-06-14T02:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12780"},"modified":"2015-06-14T02:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:25:58","slug":"hour-14-autobiography-of-a-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-14-autobiography-of-a-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 14:  Autobiography of a Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is where he hit me with<br \/>\na Sunday School slate,<br \/>\npunishment for playing a hot game<br \/>\nof Tic-Tac-Toe on the back of a pew<br \/>\nwith a pocket knife. I was winning.<\/p>\n<p>These freckles came<br \/>\nfrom years of forced labor<br \/>\nin his gardens, upper and lower.<br \/>\nDown below, we grew tomatoes, beans, onions.<br \/>\nAbove, bushels of potatoes, corn, and melons.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad you can\u2019t see inside<br \/>\nthis face, where it is wired together,<br \/>\nafter it cracked from the force of a blow,<br \/>\nin 1974. You don\u2019t want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where he hit me with a Sunday School slate, punishment for playing a hot game of Tic-Tac-Toe on the back of a pew with a pocket knife. I was winning. These freckles came from years of forced labor in his gardens, upper and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12786,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions\/12786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}