{"id":141442,"date":"2023-09-03T05:18:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141442"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:18:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:18:13","slug":"jackson-brown-would-be-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/jackson-brown-would-be-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Brown Would Be Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running on empty<br \/>\nPre-dawn hollowness<br \/>\nA shell of my usual self<br \/>\nMy words brittle, stilted, halting<br \/>\nMy emotions devoid of feeling<br \/>\nFree-floating angst and anger<br \/>\nSo great, yet so nebulous.<\/p>\n<p>I have no core.<br \/>\nMy thoughts echo in the vastness<br \/>\nas they ricochet between scales from high and the abyss<br \/>\nVacillating on the periphery<br \/>\nOf sleep deprived cravings<br \/>\nFor friendship,<br \/>\nCommeraderie<br \/>\nkinship.<\/p>\n<p>I miss my friends<br \/>\nand Some Poets.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to remember a time<br \/>\nWhen I have felt as sorry for myself<br \/>\nAs I do now.<\/p>\n<p>Breath fills the cavity within me<br \/>\nSlowly released into the vacuum that connects us all.<br \/>\nIt is enough for now,<br \/>\nfor me<br \/>\nto keep running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running on empty Pre-dawn hollowness A shell of my usual self My words brittle, stilted, halting My emotions devoid of feeling Free-floating angst and anger So great, yet so nebulous. I have no core. My thoughts echo in the vastness as they ricochet between scales&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[2691],"class_list":["post-141442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-hour21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141442","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141628,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141442\/revisions\/141628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}