{"id":134038,"date":"2023-09-02T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134038"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:39:18","slug":"small-bites-prompt-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/small-bites-prompt-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Bites (prompt 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we start off unafraid in life and proceed to learn through pain<br \/>\nthe deeper the wound<br \/>\nthe stronger the lesson<\/p>\n<p>the scent of autumn still reminds me of an allergy to cinnamon<br \/>\nthat hasn&#8217;t caused a problem since I was a child<\/p>\n<p>my night terrors and fidgeting, my tremors and restless limbs<br \/>\nthe colder months stretching on with long nights that brim<br \/>\nwith more to be scared of<\/p>\n<p>I keep a pack of back up lightbulbs to ensure my nightlight never dies<br \/>\nunsure of what imagined threats are hiding in the dark<\/p>\n<p>how am I supposed to trust myself or anyone else to protect me<br \/>\nI still wear my fathers jacket like a weighted blanket<br \/>\nor second skin<\/p>\n<p>I feel mildly guilty killing spiders because you taught me that they weren&#8217;t inherently bad<br \/>\nnot the way I always believed myself to be<\/p>\n<p>a cratered scar caused by a nasty bite now lives on my right elbow<br \/>\nwho knew that something so small<br \/>\ncould carry such poison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we start off unafraid in life and proceed to learn through pain the deeper the wound the stronger the lesson the scent of autumn still reminds me of an allergy to cinnamon that hasn&#8217;t caused a problem since I was a child my&#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-134038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134038","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=134038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136194,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134038\/revisions\/136194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}