{"id":133381,"date":"2023-09-02T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133381"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:23:19","slug":"sunlightrevealingtruths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/sunlightrevealingtruths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunlight Revealing Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cw: allusions to abuse\/cycles of abuse, all metaphorical though<\/p>\n<p>It was impossible to predict<br \/>\nwhen hands would be gentle or cruel.<br \/>\nSometimes, hands would feed it<br \/>\nits self-imposed diet of poetry;<br \/>\nand other times, those same hands<br \/>\nwould try to starve it<br \/>\nand eat its heart.<br \/>\nThe canary knew to never take for granted<br \/>\nwhen the hands were gentle &#8211;<br \/>\nand to also, never assume<br \/>\nthat the hands would be cruel.<br \/>\nSometimes they weren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The day after the curtains were opened,<br \/>\nthe canary thought<br \/>\nmaybe<br \/>\nit was not supposed to be like that at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cw: allusions to abuse\/cycles of abuse, all metaphorical though It was impossible to predict when hands would be gentle or cruel. Sometimes, hands would feed it its self-imposed diet of poetry; and other times, those same hands would try to starve it and eat its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133381","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\/4005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133427,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133381\/revisions\/133427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}