{"id":140427,"date":"2023-09-03T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140427"},"modified":"2023-09-03T03:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:00:58","slug":"hour-18-hello-anxiety-my-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-18-hello-anxiety-my-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18: Hello Anxiety, My Old Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You creep up on me on the strangest of times.<br \/>\nA casual remark in a random conversation.<br \/>\nA busy day at work.<br \/>\nA traffic jam on the highway.<br \/>\nAnd sometimes, you\u2019re the first thing I feel when I wake up. <\/p>\n<p>You started when I was a child.<br \/>\nAt that time, I didn\u2019t quite recognize you,<br \/>\nbut my body did.<br \/>\nTeeth biting lips and nails,<br \/>\nlegs twitching.<br \/>\nAll parts of my body, on high alert,<br \/>\npumping me with adrenalin,<br \/>\ntill you would take your leave. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I know the warning signs.<br \/>\nThe clenching of my heart.<br \/>\nThe shivers.<br \/>\nThe short, shallow breaths.<br \/>\nAnd the immense strength it takes to move or speak or even think. <\/p>\n<p>For when you visit, my mind is completely possessed.<br \/>\nYou, anxiety, are the ghost of my mind.<br \/>\nNot by any means my best friend,<br \/>\nbut certainly my oldest one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You creep up on me on the strangest of times. A casual remark in a random conversation. A busy day at work. A traffic jam on the highway. And sometimes, you\u2019re the first thing I feel when I wake up. You started when I was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140427","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\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140433,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140427\/revisions\/140433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}