{"id":130401,"date":"2023-09-02T12:55:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130401"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:55:53","slug":"130401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/130401\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer by the side of the mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Prayer by the side of the night <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">May the body not be a room filled with smoke<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">May the bones not tremble into a glass shattering<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m knowing my body, by marking my wounds<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m knowing my country, by passing the blame<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">May the slope, slide us into perfection<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">May the music yield us demons, us angles<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The night is failing to bloom<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The night is failing to rot<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">May what has passed, not hold<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s to come,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">May what\u2019s here not hold unto us too much<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">May the night not fall, May the music never stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer by the side of the night May the body not be a room filled with smoke May the bones not tremble into a glass shattering I\u2019m knowing my body, by marking my wounds I\u2019m knowing my country, by passing the blame May the slope,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130401","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\/5283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130408,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130401\/revisions\/130408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}