{"id":14231,"date":"2015-06-14T08:19:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=14231"},"modified":"2015-06-14T08:19:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:19:44","slug":"poem-21-anne-lamott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-21-anne-lamott\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 21: Anne Lamott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always count on you to say the dangerous<br \/>\nthing, the true thing, about Dick Cheney or<br \/>\nglobal warming, and damn if you didn\u2019t do it<br \/>\nagain, calling out Bruce Jenner for making<br \/>\nhimself into a facsimile woman, practically<br \/>\na Kardashian. I know you, Annie, and I<br \/>\nknow you didn\u2019t mean to be unloving to<br \/>\nCaitlyn or anyone else, but that you were<br \/>\ndoing that thing we all do from time to<br \/>\ntime, making Jesus drink himself to<br \/>\nsleep, or want to. We all embarrass<br \/>\nGod when we open our mouths and<br \/>\n\u201cthe monkeys fly out,\u201d as Zora Neale<br \/>\nHurston would say. The monkeys fly when<br \/>\nwe get it wrong, when we aren\u2019t truthful,<br \/>\nwhen we aren\u2019t worthy of ourselves,<br \/>\nlet alone Jesus. I\u2019m glad you\u2019ve apologized,<br \/>\nnot just to Caitlyn, but to all transgender<br \/>\npeople, and their parents, and neighbors,<br \/>\nand teachers, and lovers, and friends. I\u2019m glad<br \/>\nSam\u2019s got your back on this, telling us his mom\u2019s<br \/>\npretty clueless about trans stuff, but she\u2019s still<br \/>\nhis mom. And you\u2019re still my fave, so get back<br \/>\nto work. Somebody loves us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always count on you to say the dangerous thing, the true thing, about Dick Cheney or global warming, and damn if you didn\u2019t do it again, calling out Bruce Jenner for making himself into a facsimile woman, practically a Kardashian. I know you, Annie,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14231","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14244,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14231\/revisions\/14244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}