{"id":128974,"date":"2023-09-02T11:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128974"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:25:47","slug":"hour-3-this-body-was-a-person-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-3-this-body-was-a-person-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 3 – this body was a person once"},"content":{"rendered":"

this body was a person once<\/b><\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

with uninterrupted skin<\/span><\/p>\n

and lungs ballooning with ambition<\/span><\/p>\n

it even knew its own name<\/span><\/p>\n

this body isn\u2019t much for purity culture<\/span><\/p>\n

but perhaps it was the hands that touched it<\/span><\/p>\n

that took away the self, the animation<\/span><\/p>\n

or perhaps it was the slow decay of mourning<\/span><\/p>\n

or the woodgrain patterns of trauma<\/span><\/p>\n

all building upon each other<\/span><\/p>\n

to make this body a tree<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

but this body was a person once<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

this body was a person once<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

my body was a person once<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

this body was a person once   with uninterrupted skin and lungs ballooning with ambition it even knew its own name this body isn\u2019t much for purity culture but perhaps it was the hands that touched it that took away the self, the animation or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128974","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\/3778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128982,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128974\/revisions\/128982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}