{"id":139708,"date":"2023-09-03T01:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139708"},"modified":"2023-09-03T01:49:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:49:15","slug":"a-frustrating-life-of-an-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-frustrating-life-of-an-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"A frustrating life of an adult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The juicer whirrs as I hum. Nothing in particular sits in my head.<br \/>\nI throw another chunk of <strong>beet<\/strong> into the blender.<br \/>\nConfirming from the recipe book, I add some <strong>cinnamon<\/strong><br \/>\nThe juice whirrs up to the top, red foamy juice splashes on my pink <strong>jacket<\/strong>.<br \/>\nWhat is left of the juice gets upturned by my <strong>tremor<\/strong>. I hold my hand, stroking from <strong>elbow<\/strong> to wrist, <strong>elbow<\/strong> to wrist<br \/>\nThe <strong>lightbulb<\/strong> overheard goes on and off, on and off, signalling a low electrical power unit.<br \/>\nJust when I think adulthood is done with me, it says not yet.<\/p>\n<p>I walk into the garage to get a torch.<br \/>\nAs I step into the garage- my <strong>carport<\/strong> with a fence. My leg locates a <strong>bucket\u00a0<\/strong>forgotten after a car wash<br \/>\nMy car stares at me like a displeased <strong>elk<\/strong> and then it goes wailing. I sit on the floor and cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The juicer whirrs as I hum. Nothing in particular sits in my head. I throw another chunk of beet into the blender. Confirming from the recipe book, I add some cinnamon The juice whirrs up to the top, red foamy juice splashes on my pink&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[6284,6285],"class_list":["post-139708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-hour-9-2923","tag-promot9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139708","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\/4575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139925,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139708\/revisions\/139925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}