{"id":137988,"date":"2023-09-02T22:41:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137988"},"modified":"2023-09-03T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:38:02","slug":"hour-fourteen-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-fourteen-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Fourteen: Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You could be facing puke brown walls,<\/p>\n<p>back to the cage bars and booted key holders,<\/p>\n<p>envisioning apertures,<\/p>\n<p>sunlight piercing the dank air,<\/p>\n<p>and dirty, fluorescent, flickering dying light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And you might lie in a meadow,<\/p>\n<p>floating atop a bed of purple coneflower, fireweed, buttercup, and chicory,<\/p>\n<p>rehearsing scenes,<\/p>\n<p>screams and fists,<\/p>\n<p>behind closed eyes, reliving it all in an acid-gut and brimstone mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or you can sit among urban blight,<\/p>\n<p>cracked walls, concrete barriers, painted baby blue hope,<\/p>\n<p>hooded against daylight,<\/p>\n<p>slumped over a sucking screen,<\/p>\n<p>missing signs, like a diamond in an addiction wall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could be facing puke brown walls, back to the cage bars and booted key holders, envisioning apertures, sunlight piercing the dank air, and dirty, fluorescent, flickering dying light. &nbsp; And you might lie in a meadow, floating atop a bed of purple coneflower, fireweed,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137988","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144358,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137988\/revisions\/144358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}