{"id":139119,"date":"2023-09-03T00:17:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139119"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:17:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:17:31","slug":"asthingschange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/asthingschange\/","title":{"rendered":"As Things Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cw: references to metaphorical body horror<\/p>\n<p>The gentle hands<br \/>\n(as the canary thought of them)<br \/>\ncould not be around all the time.<br \/>\nIt was sad, but the canary knew<br \/>\nthat hands had things beyond<br \/>\nits four walls.<br \/>\nAfter all: the window<br \/>\nshowed a whole world out there.<br \/>\nStill, when the gentle hands were gone,<br \/>\nsometimes cruel hands would come.<br \/>\nThey would undo all the bandages,<br \/>\nand make the canary bleed,<br \/>\ntrying to get it to sing<br \/>\nby causing it pain.<\/p>\n<p>If the canary bit,<br \/>\nthe hands would hurt it worse.<br \/>\nIt was tired of having its heart eaten:<br \/>\nand so, it stayed quiet, yearning<br \/>\nfor the gentle hands &#8211;<br \/>\nthe only hands that never<br \/>\nturned on it.<br \/>\nThose same hands<br \/>\ntook down the curtains:<br \/>\nnow, they could never<br \/>\nblock its view of the world outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cw: references to metaphorical body horror The gentle hands (as the canary thought of them) could not be around all the time. It was sad, but the canary knew that hands had things beyond its four walls. After all: the window showed a whole world&#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-139119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139119","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=139119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139159,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139119\/revisions\/139159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}