{"id":137026,"date":"2023-09-02T20:42:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137026"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:42:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:42:53","slug":"12-closets-of-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/12-closets-of-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"#12 Closets of My Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Closets of My Mind<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have closets in my mind<\/p>\n<p>That hold secrets:<\/p>\n<p>Things I wasn\u2019t supposed to know about\u2014<\/p>\n<p>The truth about Santa<\/p>\n<p>Or I wasn\u2019t supposed to do<\/p>\n<p>Play with matches<\/p>\n<p>Or people I shouldn\u2019t have been with\u2014<\/p>\n<p>No names will be disclosed here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have locked away things I wished I didn\u2019t know<\/p>\n<p>Or wished I hadn\u2019t seen\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Like the car accident that happened in front of me<\/p>\n<p>And the woman lay bleeding on the road<\/p>\n<p>Crying for her baby<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or the devastation after the tornado<\/p>\n<p>Where parts of houses vanished<\/p>\n<p>And a trampoline was on top of a tall tree<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have closets that hold the pain<\/p>\n<p>Of loved ones who have died,<\/p>\n<p>And the anguish of those assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some closets are best kept closed<\/p>\n<p>And some do need to see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Herndon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closets of My Mind &nbsp; I have closets in my mind That hold secrets: Things I wasn\u2019t supposed to know about\u2014 The truth about Santa Or I wasn\u2019t supposed to do Play with matches Or people I shouldn\u2019t have been with\u2014 No names will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137026","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\/5239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137036,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137026\/revisions\/137036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}