{"id":137541,"date":"2023-09-02T21:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137541"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:28:16","slug":"painfulknowings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/painfulknowings\/","title":{"rendered":"Painful Knowings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cw: none<\/p>\n<p>The canary hates when the curtains are open &#8211;<br \/>\nit hates the light, the bright,<br \/>\nthe thousand stars.<br \/>\nIt hates what a clear-view window tells it,<br \/>\nwhat it wishes it could not see.<br \/>\nIgnorance is bliss:<br \/>\nhands that hurt are wrong,<br \/>\nand what it knows it cannot stop knowing.<br \/>\nIt wishes:<br \/>\nclose the curtains.<br \/>\nLeave it to its darkness and vellum,<br \/>\nleave it to its black-ink blood and poetry:<br \/>\nvoiceless, wingless &#8211;<br \/>\nbut now that it knows<br \/>\nif the curtains are closed<br \/>\nit would miss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cw: none The canary hates when the curtains are open &#8211; it hates the light, the bright, the thousand stars. It hates what a clear-view window tells it, what it wishes it could not see. Ignorance is bliss: hands that hurt are wrong, and what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137541","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\/4005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137573,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137541\/revisions\/137573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}