{"id":128249,"date":"2023-09-02T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128249"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:51:14","slug":"poem-for-hour-two-recovery-my-10-year-ago-selfcombined-with-the-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poem-for-hour-two-recovery-my-10-year-ago-selfcombined-with-the-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for Hour Two  &#8220;Recovery&#8221; my 10 year ago self,combined with the image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing only darkness ahead,<\/p>\n<p>a never-ending night<\/p>\n<p>calling for surrender<\/p>\n<p>and giving up the fight.<\/p>\n<p>I crawl up to the blank walls<\/p>\n<p>that seem to surround me<\/p>\n<p>and for the first time, I see<\/p>\n<p>a stair just out of reach,<\/p>\n<p>rungs of beauty and pain.<\/p>\n<p>Is this recovery?<\/p>\n<p>I grab, grasp and grapple<\/p>\n<p>with those first steps<\/p>\n<p>but continue to climb<\/p>\n<p>up and out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing only darkness ahead, a never-ending night calling for surrender and giving up the fight. I crawl up to the blank walls that seem to surround me and for the first time, I see a stair just out of reach, rungs of beauty and pain&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128249","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\/5269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128491,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128249\/revisions\/128491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}