{"id":136871,"date":"2023-09-02T20:31:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136871"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:31:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:31:04","slug":"coming-out-of-the-closet-poem-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/coming-out-of-the-closet-poem-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Out of the Closet (Poem 12)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My closet was full<\/p>\n<p>The clothes and other contents falling over one another<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My closet was full<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find what I wanted without everything toppling over<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My closet was full<\/p>\n<p>Most things inside were hidden in plain sight<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My closet was full<\/p>\n<p>It was giving me anxiety and sleepless nights<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was time<\/p>\n<p>To get rid of the excess baggage<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was time<\/p>\n<p>To hear the calling of the burdened one (s)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was time<\/p>\n<p>To reach out to one(s) tucked away in some corner<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was time<\/p>\n<p>To let out those that hadn&#8217;t seen the light of day in ages<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was time<\/p>\n<p>To come out of the closet for many<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to text prompt number 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My closet was full The clothes and other contents falling over one another &nbsp; My closet was full I couldn&#8217;t find what I wanted without everything toppling over &nbsp; My closet was full Most things inside were hidden in plain sight &nbsp; My closet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136871","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\/5324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136897,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136871\/revisions\/136897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}