{"id":128725,"date":"2023-09-02T11:07:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128725"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:42:15","slug":"same-stain-different-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/same-stain-different-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Stain, Different Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I stand before the washing machine,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I realize that nothing has changed in ten years<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Except the size of her clothes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yesterday, I sprayed <em>SHOUT!<\/em> all over the blemishes<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">ground deep into the fibers of her clothes;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grass stains on the knees of her jeans,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juice stains down the front of her shirts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her socks, hopeless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, I spray <em>SHOUT! <\/em>all over the blemishes<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">ground deep into her the fibers of her uniforms;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grass stains on the knees of her softball pants,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dirt stains down the front of her jersey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her socks, hopeless.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I stand before the washing machine, I realize that nothing has changed in ten years Except the size of her clothes. &#8211; Yesterday, I sprayed SHOUT! all over the blemishes ground deep into the fibers of her clothes; Grass stains on the knees of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128725","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\/1448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137030,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128725\/revisions\/137030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}