{"id":128395,"date":"2023-09-02T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128395"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:52:12","slug":"never-near-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/never-near-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Near Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stand in the kitchen<br \/>\nand cry each day<br \/>\nbefore heading into work<\/p>\n<p>Beat down by systems and<br \/>\nadministrators and politics<br \/>\nthe things no one tells you about<\/p>\n<p>when they ask<br \/>\n&#8220;What do you want to be<br \/>\nwhen you grow up?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When my future self looks back<br \/>\nafter the heart attack<br \/>\nthe evidence will be clear<\/p>\n<p>every tear another shred of stress<br \/>\ngripping tighter and tighter<br \/>\nan unending cycle of torment<\/p>\n<p>my breathing slows to shudders<br \/>\nas I hold my travel mug and work bag<br \/>\n&#8220;Okay,&#8221; I exhale. &#8220;I&#8217;m ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 2: Write a poem from the point of view of yourself, ten years ago.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stand in the kitchen and cry each day before heading into work Beat down by systems and administrators and politics the things no one tells you about when they ask &#8220;What do you want to be when you grow up?&#8221; When my future self&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128395","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128497,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128395\/revisions\/128497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}