{"id":136660,"date":"2023-09-02T20:29:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136660"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:30:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:30:55","slug":"prompt-12-closets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-12-closets\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #12 &#8212; Closets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My closet door opens on its own,<\/p>\n<p>exposing my lack of organization and<\/p>\n<p>preponderance of<\/p>\n<p>stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My cats love it.<\/p>\n<p>They plunder the bags of yarn<\/p>\n<p>and leave string trails<\/p>\n<p>of forest green and fuchsia<\/p>\n<p>throughout the house.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I took out all of my skinny clothes and<\/p>\n<p>put them in storage bins under<\/p>\n<p>the bed, and wistfully visit them on occasion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On my last visit, I realized the cats<\/p>\n<p>had peed on them. What message are they<\/p>\n<p>trying to communicate to me? That my aspirations<\/p>\n<p>are stupid? That I should have let<\/p>\n<p>the skinny clothes continue to mingle with the chubby stuff?<\/p>\n<p>That I should be content<\/p>\n<p>with who I am? No, not that&#8230; But<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I just cleaned it up, sighed, and walked away,<\/p>\n<p>closing the closet door that<\/p>\n<p>popped back open before I had even<\/p>\n<p>reached the hallway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My closet door opens on its own, exposing my lack of organization and preponderance of stuff. &nbsp; My cats love it. They plunder the bags of yarn and leave string trails of forest green and fuchsia throughout the house. &nbsp; I took out all of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136660","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\/5285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136894,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136660\/revisions\/136894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}