{"id":128252,"date":"2023-09-02T10:34:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128252"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:34:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:34:20","slug":"peaches-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/peaches-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-after Diana Khoi Nguyen<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c&#8230;hands separating peach halves from a core\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the crack that it makes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">white flesh peaches crack and snap<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">they crunch in my mouth<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">textures like soft sand and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mild sweetness<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">launches me back to marching fields<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">summer heat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">when my ears were drenched in sound<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and my body rhythm flowed in time<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with the drum beats around me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the boys I called brothers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and the shenanigans we got up to<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are all in the past<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but still live in the taste of peaches<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-after Diana Khoi Nguyen &nbsp; \u201c&#8230;hands separating peach halves from a core\u201d the crack that it makes white flesh peaches crack and snap they crunch in my mouth textures like soft sand and mild sweetness launches me back to marching fields summer heat when my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[398,415,1028],"class_list":["post-128252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-past","tag-peaches","tag-poets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128252","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128269,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128252\/revisions\/128269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}