{"id":23894,"date":"2016-08-13T19:15:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23894"},"modified":"2016-08-13T19:15:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:15:40","slug":"homeless-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/homeless-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly<br \/>\nShe packs her belongings into a plastic,<br \/>\ntrash bag<br \/>\nHer children&#8217;s belongings were packed into<br \/>\nan additional two plastic bags<\/p>\n<p>Three bags of belongings,<br \/>\nall she could take with her of her former life<br \/>\nShe placed the littlest one into the baby carrier,<br \/>\nthe oldest one followed her out<\/p>\n<p>She sat on the stoop, awaiting the cab<br \/>\nHomeless again, this time with two babies<br \/>\nShe had no idea<br \/>\nHow to keep her head above water<br \/>\nShe always felt like she was<br \/>\ndrowning,<br \/>\nFighting the current for control,<br \/>\nfighting against poverty.<br \/>\nIt seemed she lost the battle<br \/>\neverytime<\/p>\n<p>The cab pulls to the curb<br \/>\nThe oldest child she takes by the hand,<br \/>\nleads her to the car.<br \/>\nShe walks back to get her trash bags full of belongings,<br \/>\ntakes another look around<br \/>\nTo the shelter they will go,<br \/>\nHopefully for the last time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly She packs her belongings into a plastic, trash bag Her children&#8217;s belongings were packed into an additional two plastic bags Three bags of belongings, all she could take with her of her former life She placed the littlest one into the baby carrier, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894","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\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23975,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894\/revisions\/23975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}