{"id":21321,"date":"2016-08-13T14:48:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21321"},"modified":"2016-08-13T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:48:29","slug":"homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spend my days wandering<br \/>\nI spend my nights in fear<br \/>\nWondering and pondering<br \/>\nHow it is that I got here<\/p>\n<p>Living without shelter<br \/>\nIs more than no roof overhead<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the loss of safety and security<br \/>\nAnd sometimes wishing I were dead<\/p>\n<p>Every day a struggle<br \/>\nHungry, tired, feeling unseen<br \/>\nBeing treated as less than human<br \/>\nJust because my clothes aren&#8217;t clean<\/p>\n<p>Not only is my belly empty<br \/>\nMy heart feels hollow too<br \/>\nYou should see the way people look at me<br \/>\nI wish they only knew<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t know my story<br \/>\nHow I was once like you<br \/>\nI had it all together<br \/>\nAnd then it all fell through<\/p>\n<p>So have a little compassion<br \/>\nAnd some kindness in your eyes<br \/>\nRemember when you look at me<br \/>\nThat I am God in disguise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spend my days wandering I spend my nights in fear Wondering and pondering How it is that I got here Living without shelter Is more than no roof overhead It&#8217;s the loss of safety and security And sometimes wishing I were dead Every day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":881,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21321","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\/881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21331,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21321\/revisions\/21331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}