{"id":137484,"date":"2023-09-02T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137484"},"modified":"2023-09-09T03:01:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T07:01:29","slug":"colouring-in-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/colouring-in-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Colouring in #13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mya, aged five<br \/>\nTook her homework assignment<br \/>\nVery seriously<br \/>\nAs we sat together in the kitchen<br \/>\nEating toast<br \/>\nWhile she interviewed me<br \/>\nAbout my job<br \/>\n&#8216;What do you do?&#8217; the question<br \/>\nSo do I tell her I used to be<br \/>\nA graphic designer,<br \/>\nBut since we moved here<br \/>\nThere wasn&#8217;t enough work<br \/>\nOr do I tell her i used to ne<br \/>\nAn acupuncturist<br \/>\nBut the recession meant<br \/>\nThat i had to find another avenue<br \/>\nTo put bread on the table<br \/>\nThat pride can&#8217;t be eaten<br \/>\nJust swallowed<br \/>\nAnd that it tastes bitter<br \/>\nAnd that they taste bitter<br \/>\n&#8216;I colour in houses&#8217; I said<br \/>\nAnd it was the most true description<br \/>\nOf what I do<br \/>\n&#8216;That&#8217;s the coolest thing in the world she beamed&#8217;<br \/>\nAnd it was, and it is<br \/>\nBecause she made it so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mya, aged five Took her homework assignment Very seriously As we sat together in the kitchen Eating toast While she interviewed me About my job &#8216;What do you do?&#8217; the question So do I tell her I used to be A graphic designer, But since&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137484","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\/4830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145256,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137484\/revisions\/145256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}