{"id":137709,"date":"2023-09-02T22:04:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137709"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:04:44","slug":"hour-13-i-defy-your-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-13-i-defy-your-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 13 &#8211; I defy your box"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Stop trying to stuff me in your box\r\nwhere I must conform to your expectations\r\nwhen what I offer is a paradox\r\nwith expectations defiled by unintended wrongs\r\n\r\nA nurse I am\r\nbut not a saint\r\nI cannot reverse\r\nyour fatal complaint\r\n\r\nAn attorney I am\r\nbut not a saint\r\nI cannot reverse\r\nyour moral constraint\r\n\r\nI am an author\r\nbut not a saint\r\nmy stories are mine\r\nwith colorful paint\r\n\r\nI'm a doctor of the mind\r\nof psychology and how we think\r\nwith theories of old and new\r\nand I transform not as a lunatic\r\n\r\nI am a seeker of truth and hope \r\nthat each person, despite trope,\r\ncan become their best and joyful self\r\nand I advocate for your hope\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop trying to stuff me in your box where I must conform to your expectations when what I offer is a paradox with expectations defiled by unintended wrongs A nurse I am but not a saint I cannot reverse your fatal complaint An attorney I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137709","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\/3614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137906,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137709\/revisions\/137906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}