{"id":13481,"date":"2015-06-14T05:59:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T09:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=13481"},"modified":"2015-06-14T05:59:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T09:59:46","slug":"hour-21-possum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-21-possum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 21&#8211;Possum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was naptime<\/p>\n<p>I jumped around my room<\/p>\n<p>until I heard Mom coming up the stairs<\/p>\n<p>I dove into bed and properly covered up<\/p>\n<p>She entered and stood by the bed silently<\/p>\n<p>This makes no sense to me now, but as a kid<\/p>\n<p>I had been told an important truth:<\/p>\n<p>People stop breathing when they sleep<\/p>\n<p>To complete the ruse and get away with it<\/p>\n<p>I lay there motionless<\/p>\n<p>The tiniest of breaths moving in and out<\/p>\n<p>my face positioned strategically toward the wall<\/p>\n<p>She had to believe I was asleep<\/p>\n<p>I tortured myself in the ploy<\/p>\n<p>Mom played her role with dead\u00a0silence<\/p>\n<p>and waited while her gullible boy<\/p>\n<p>played\u00a0possum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was naptime I jumped around my room until I heard Mom coming up the stairs I dove into bed and properly covered up She entered and stood by the bed silently This makes no sense to me now, but as a kid I had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13589,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481\/revisions\/13589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}