{"id":136470,"date":"2023-09-02T20:18:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136470"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:18:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:18:05","slug":"fall-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/fall-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning the closet of my past<br \/>\nTossing out first day outfits<br \/>\nAnd funeral clothes<br \/>\nScuffed shoes and torn hose<br \/>\nAnd scarves with moth holes<br \/>\nDusting off the corners of doubt<br \/>\nThat hold me back<br \/>\nEmptying bag upon bag<br \/>\nAll seem to be black<br \/>\nI\u2019ll replace them<br \/>\nWith colorful dreams<br \/>\nAll brand-new<br \/>\nThe suits replaced<br \/>\nWith loungewear in blue<br \/>\nTime to dress my age<br \/>\nAnd release from the cage<br \/>\nThe skeletons that haunt<br \/>\nMy book\u2019s last page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning the closet of my past Tossing out first day outfits And funeral clothes Scuffed shoes and torn hose And scarves with moth holes Dusting off the corners of doubt That hold me back Emptying bag upon bag All seem to be black I\u2019ll replace&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136470","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\/1163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136709,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136470\/revisions\/136709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}