{"id":24061,"date":"2016-08-13T19:35:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24061"},"modified":"2016-08-13T19:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:35:54","slug":"persona-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/persona-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Persona Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dance with their rules,<\/p>\n<p>give them a spin just long enough<\/p>\n<p>to get by.<\/p>\n<p>To earn a buck,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do what they say.<\/p>\n<p>But stay too long,<\/p>\n<p>and you&#8217;re infiltrated.<\/p>\n<p>You start thinking in khaki.<\/p>\n<p>Your polo shirt collar<\/p>\n<p>gets &#8217;round your mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0mind is me.<\/p>\n<p>There are worlds in there,<\/p>\n<p>worlds that sing&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>call and response&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>with everything I see.<\/p>\n<p>So I just keep seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Like a turtle,<\/p>\n<p>I carry my home with me&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>only inside.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dance with their rules, give them a spin just long enough to get by. To earn a buck, I&#8217;ll do what they say. But stay too long, and you&#8217;re infiltrated. You start thinking in khaki. Your polo shirt collar gets &#8217;round your mind. &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[792,524],"class_list":["post-24061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-hour-11-prompt","tag-persona-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24061","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\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24157,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24061\/revisions\/24157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}