it seems fitting that the internet would go down
\nright as I begin to write about how silence
\nis an experience I tend to avoid at all costs<\/p>\n
silence used to scare me more
\nthan a raised voice
\nor a slammed door
\nbecause it often precedes devastation
\na calm before the storm<\/p>\n
worse, when used as a command
\nhand in hand with shaming
\nfor being too loud or passionate
\nrips the voice from my throat
\njust like a Disney movie<\/p>\n
silence makes the noise in my head deafening it seems fitting that the internet would go down right as I begin to write about how silence is an experience I tend to avoid at all costs silence used to scare me more than a raised voice or a slammed door because it often…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142241","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142263,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142241\/revisions\/142263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na tornado of thought an earthquake shifting
\nthe tectonic plates of composure
\nthat is why the tv is always on
\neven when my attention lives elsewhere\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"