{"id":137443,"date":"2023-09-02T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137443"},"modified":"2023-09-04T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T21:21:56","slug":"we-write-our-own-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/we-write-our-own-endings\/","title":{"rendered":"we write our own endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the poem is not the emotion,<br \/>\nthe dark mouth swallowing<br \/>\nyour yolk-burst heart, it is not<br \/>\nthe icy tongue around your neck.<\/p>\n<p>it is a remnant.<br \/>\nwe write it down dumbly<br \/>\nthe same way we worship<br \/>\na god who one day will destroy us<\/p>\n<p>with the flick of a wrist,<br \/>\nwithout a second thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>congratulations and thank you for the poems, half marathoners! and good luck to those carrying on. xx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the poem is not the emotion, the dark mouth swallowing your yolk-burst heart, it is not the icy tongue around your neck. it is a remnant. we write it down dumbly the same way we worship a god who one day will destroy us with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137443","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\/5315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144826,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137443\/revisions\/144826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}