{"id":21564,"date":"2016-08-13T15:10:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21564"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:54:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:54:43","slug":"slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>slavery<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Being a slave to the pit made me do this. The boulder of Sisyphus constantly pushed up continuous hills to sate the growling pit within me.\u00a0 It\u2019s the worst excuse for the best mistakes I\u2019ve ever made.\u00a0 The Devil made me do it \u2013 so did the pit I couldn\u2019t fill within me.\u00a0 Auto-pilot. Overdrive.\u00a0 Circles burnt into my visions from staring into the face of God and not seeing anything.\u00a0 Those black holes attracting every shipwreck in the galaxy, keeping me too busy to captain my own ship.\u00a0 Auto-pilot.\u00a0 Overdrive.\u00a0 Crawling on my hands and knees, into fields of broken glass, trying to find my way out of that pit.\u00a0 Clawing up the sides to see the edge of eternity, praying for freedom from slavery to my ego\u2019s master.<\/p>\n<p>I melt to break free<\/p>\n<p>from the pit within me and<\/p>\n<p>stare into the sun.<\/p>\n<p>(c) R. L. Elke 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>slavery Being a slave to the pit made me do this. The boulder of Sisyphus constantly pushed up continuous hills to sate the growling pit within me.\u00a0 It\u2019s the worst excuse for the best mistakes I\u2019ve ever made.\u00a0 The Devil made me do it \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23225,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564\/revisions\/23225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}