{"id":143976,"date":"2023-09-03T09:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143976"},"modified":"2023-09-03T09:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T13:08:06","slug":"the-one-in-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-one-in-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"The One in My Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I hear him<\/span><\/p>\n

at the back of my mind<\/span><\/p>\n

or I hear him<\/span><\/p>\n

in an empty room<\/span><\/p>\n

his hand inhabits mine<\/span><\/p>\n

and guides me<\/span><\/p>\n

to a calmer state<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I see him in the mirror<\/span><\/p>\n

when I look too quickly<\/span><\/p>\n

and unguarded<\/span><\/p>\n

his eyes are mine<\/span><\/p>\n

staring back at me<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I call on him sometimes<\/span><\/p>\n

when I know I won\u2019t be calm<\/span><\/p>\n

he says the words I need to say<\/span><\/p>\n

and makes them acceptable<\/span><\/p>\n

then push him back\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

while he stares at me<\/span><\/p>\n

waiting for me to accept him<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I hear him at the back of my mind or I hear him in an empty room his hand inhabits mine and guides me to a calmer state   I see him in the mirror when I look too quickly and unguarded his eyes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[6457,6458,6459],"class_list":["post-143976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-nonbinary","tag-other","tag-parts-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143976","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143982,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143976\/revisions\/143982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}