{"id":21142,"date":"2016-08-13T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21142"},"modified":"2016-08-13T14:33:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:33:29","slug":"dayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/dayton\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dayton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we don&#8217;t even have to talk behind his back,<\/p>\n<p>fourth hour history snoring, a safe haven for snickering,<\/p>\n<p>a table&#8217;s distance. talk shit, watch the teach<\/p>\n<p>smile, shake her head, filter through her powerpoint.<\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;ve got to purge this rage from our minds, post-algebra 2,<\/p>\n<p>pre-homeroom. let&#8217;s watch him slump over, then wake<\/p>\n<p>from his roadblocked nostrils. we have conversations,<\/p>\n<p>finish daily projects. the room divides itself as in mitosis,<\/p>\n<p>except we&#8217;ve left behind a chromosome. he could wake<\/p>\n<p>and believe no time had passed. hard to believe he could stay up<\/p>\n<p>weekends staring at a screen, never looking down with tired eyes<\/p>\n<p>to the controller. if we had wondered back then, it would have been<\/p>\n<p>our brand of strained concern,<\/p>\n<p>but the room never noticed,<\/p>\n<p>just went on taking notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dayton &nbsp; we don&#8217;t even have to talk behind his back, fourth hour history snoring, a safe haven for snickering, a table&#8217;s distance. talk shit, watch the teach smile, shake her head, filter through her powerpoint. we&#8217;ve got to purge this rage from our minds,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21142","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\/717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21155,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21142\/revisions\/21155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}