{"id":23059,"date":"2016-08-13T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23059"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:52:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:52:46","slug":"vertigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/vertigo\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertigo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Vertigo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always so much farther<\/p>\n<p>down than up<\/p>\n<p>and I<\/p>\n<p>constantly<\/p>\n<p>fight the urge to<\/p>\n<p>throw myself<\/p>\n<p>off the edge,<\/p>\n<p>into their beds,<\/p>\n<p>or into<\/p>\n<p>nude,<\/p>\n<p>all you can<\/p>\n<p>eat<\/p>\n<p>nonstop<\/p>\n<p>erotic cabarets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Face first \u2013<\/p>\n<p>always \u2013<\/p>\n<p>not head first\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I always lead with my lips<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>my brain<\/p>\n<p>eventually follows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s just always<\/p>\n<p>so much farther<\/p>\n<p>down than up<\/p>\n<p>And the<\/p>\n<p>height<\/p>\n<p>makes me dizzy;<\/p>\n<p>but I lead with<\/p>\n<p>my<\/p>\n<p>heart and<\/p>\n<p>I never hit the ground.<\/p>\n<p>(c) R. L. Elke 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vertigo \u00a0 It\u2019s always so much farther down than up and I constantly fight the urge to throw myself off the edge, into their beds, or into nude, all you can eat nonstop erotic cabarets. &nbsp; Face first \u2013 always \u2013 not head first\u2026 I&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23059","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=23059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23204,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23059\/revisions\/23204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}