{"id":23373,"date":"2016-08-13T18:09:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23373"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:10:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:10:57","slug":"living-with-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/living-with-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with the Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anger sometimes<br \/>\nIs too much to take<br \/>\nMost times it&#8217;s simmering<br \/>\nJust beneath the surface<br \/>\nBut sometimes<br \/>\nOnly sometimes<br \/>\nWhen I can&#8217;t take any more<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like an erupting volcano<\/p>\n<p>On those days<br \/>\nWhen he goes too far<br \/>\nWhen the humiliation is too great<br \/>\nI just wish I could go nuclear<br \/>\nI know though<br \/>\nThat I would be the one burned<br \/>\nThe heat and flames<br \/>\nAdding to my scars<\/p>\n<p>So I keep it contained<br \/>\nCareful to bite my tongue<br \/>\nTaking deep breaths<br \/>\nAnd choking back the rage<br \/>\nI release it slowly<br \/>\nLike steam escaping a kettle<br \/>\nMeditation keeps me sane<br \/>\nPrayer grounds me in Truth<\/p>\n<p>Anger and rage<br \/>\nAre not who I am<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just that sometimes<br \/>\nWhen living with a man<br \/>\nSo filled up with it<br \/>\nSome spills over<br \/>\nAnd I can&#8217;t help being\u00a0it<br \/>\nIf some of it gets all over me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anger sometimes Is too much to take Most times it&#8217;s simmering Just beneath the surface But sometimes Only sometimes When I can&#8217;t take any more It&#8217;s like an erupting volcano On those days When he goes too far When the humiliation is too great&#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-23373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373","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=23373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23404,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373\/revisions\/23404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}