{"id":131461,"date":"2023-09-02T14:38:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131461"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:53:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:53:33","slug":"home-prompt-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/home-prompt-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Home (prompt 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we are part of the earth<br \/>\nwe came from it and we will return<\/p>\n<p>I know this because you once read to me from a book<br \/>\nand I found I liked it better<br \/>\nthan the voice that reads to me<br \/>\nin my own head<\/p>\n<p>I know this because the lines on your face<br \/>\nlook just like roads viewed from above<br \/>\nthe ones I try to trace from the safety<br \/>\nof my window seat<\/p>\n<p>I know this because your dirty hair<br \/>\nreminds me of my teenage bedroom<br \/>\nwith its window screen popped out each night<br \/>\nso I could see the stars<\/p>\n<p>I know this because those same stars now live<br \/>\nin the space between your lips<br \/>\nwhen you&#8217;re breathing softly<br \/>\nrelaxed and unaware of the galaxies you carry<\/p>\n<p>I know this because I curl up against<br \/>\nyour valleys of carved rock and smooth sand<br \/>\nwith my ear against your chest<br \/>\nI can hear the ocean beating<\/p>\n<p>we are part of the earth<br \/>\nwe came from it and we will return<\/p>\n<p>I know this because I can see its reflection<br \/>\nin every person that I&#8217;ve loved<br \/>\nand I am slowly learning<br \/>\nhow to see it in myself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we are part of the earth we came from it and we will return I know this because you once read to me from a book and I found I liked it better than the voice that reads to me in my own head I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131461","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132176,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131461\/revisions\/132176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}