{"id":138534,"date":"2023-09-02T23:06:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138534"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:06:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:06:47","slug":"hour-12-my-closet-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-12-my-closet-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 12: My closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always loved the closet<br \/>\nEven as a child, I felt drawn to it<br \/>\nNot for me laughter and light<br \/>\nBut only the warmth and darkness of the closet<br \/>\nI felt safe, away from prying eyes and judgemental stares<br \/>\nBut as I grew up, I realized<br \/>\nHiding away is a coward&#8217;s choice<br \/>\nAnd so, one bright sunny day<br \/>\nI opened the closet and walked out of it<br \/>\nI embraced the brightness and allowed the light to warm my soul<br \/>\nAh! Should have done this sooner<br \/>\nThe closet is my safe place but the world my playground!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always loved the closet Even as a child, I felt drawn to it Not for me laughter and light But only the warmth and darkness of the closet I felt safe, away from prying eyes and judgemental stares But as I grew up,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138534","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\/4553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138543,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138534\/revisions\/138543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}