{"id":138838,"date":"2023-09-03T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138838"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:43:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:43:41","slug":"5-am-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/5-am-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"5 AM &#8211; PRIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sighs and closed eyelids,<\/p>\n<p>taste of saltine crackers<\/p>\n<p>between cracked lips.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>hold my rib cage together<\/p>\n<p>so my heart can&#8217;t escape<\/p>\n<p>my chest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>pavement scratches my knees,<\/p>\n<p>batters them, but it&#8217;s just a<\/p>\n<p>misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>slapped on the wrists<\/p>\n<p>while walking on Mass Ave,<\/p>\n<p>the rainbow road<\/p>\n<p>marks my belonging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>claps and pats on the back<\/p>\n<p>line the street,<\/p>\n<p>and the feel of smiles<\/p>\n<p>widen mine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the shame I held fades,<\/p>\n<p>regenerating pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sighs and closed eyelids, taste of saltine crackers between cracked lips. &nbsp; hold my rib cage together so my heart can&#8217;t escape my chest. &nbsp; pavement scratches my knees, batters them, but it&#8217;s just a misdemeanor. &nbsp; slapped on the wrists while walking on Mass&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138838","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\/4777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138874,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138838\/revisions\/138874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}