{"id":136292,"date":"2023-09-02T20:25:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136292"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:25:41","slug":"hour-twelve-running-from-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-twelve-running-from-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"hour twelve &#8211; running from myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Running naked through the tall grasses,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">no shoes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">no breath,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">no exhaustion,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">no thirst,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">no thoughts,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Just this hunger,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">drenched and clinging to me,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I could attempt to peel it off,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">but I keep chasing &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">everything else intentionally lost or left behind,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">wilting and forlorn<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I would have cared before,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I would have walked or even turned around,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">but now I run and run and run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">steering clear of any still water,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">avoiding all reflections that may show me the truth of what I have become,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">a beast on the hunt for something that will never nourish me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running naked through the tall grasses, no shoes, no breath, no exhaustion, no thirst, no thoughts, Just this hunger, drenched and clinging to me, I could attempt to peel it off, but I keep chasing &#8211; everything else intentionally lost or left behind, wilting and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2519,6137],"class_list":["post-136292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-twelfthpoem","tag-poem-twelve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136292","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\/4841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136794,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136292\/revisions\/136794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}