{"id":22230,"date":"2016-08-13T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22230"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:17:07","slug":"hour-eight-my-stupid-obsessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-eight-my-stupid-obsessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Eight: My stupid obsessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate all the thoughts that keep me awake<br \/>\nbecause my mind refuses to relax<br \/>\ntaking my body along for the ride<br \/>\nlong after I have closed my eyes<\/p>\n<p>Because my mind refuses to relax<br \/>\nI toss and turn and worry and fret<br \/>\nand strain at the yoke<br \/>\nIs it morning yet?<\/p>\n<p>I toss and turn and worry and fret<br \/>\nover more and more of the same<br \/>\nIs it morning yet?<br \/>\nI\u2019m so tired\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Over more and more of the same<br \/>\nlands a layer of dreams that make no sense<br \/>\nI\u2019m so tired\u2026<br \/>\nCan\u2019t they tell me something I can understand?<\/p>\n<p>Layers of dreams that make no sense<br \/>\nbuild and build until I\u2019m afraid of sleep<br \/>\nCan\u2019t they tell me something I can understand?<br \/>\n2 a.m. is no time to be solving puzzles<\/p>\n<p>that build and build until I\u2019m afraid of sleep<br \/>\nI hate all the thoughts that keep me awake<br \/>\n2 a.m. is no time to be solving puzzles<br \/>\nbecause my mind refuses to relax<\/p>\n<p>(13 August 2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate all the thoughts that keep me awake because my mind refuses to relax taking my body along for the ride long after I have closed my eyes Because my mind refuses to relax I toss and turn and worry and fret and strain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[361,1169,1173,750,1630,1163,1629,523,355,1628,696],"class_list":["post-22230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-anxiety","tag-august-2016","tag-half-marathon","tag-hour-eight","tag-insomnia","tag-kevin-j-oconner","tag-obsessions","tag-pantoum","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-prompt","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230","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\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22241,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230\/revisions\/22241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}