{"id":24223,"date":"2016-08-13T19:50:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24223"},"modified":"2016-08-14T06:58:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:58:47","slug":"hour-11-homeless-persona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-11-homeless-persona\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 11 &#8211; Homeless Persona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>You Could Be Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I can see you as your feeding<br \/>\nparking meters without heeding<br \/>\nthis sign I am holding, pleading,<br \/>\ntrying to feed my family.<br \/>\nI see you on the cell phone calling<br \/>\nsomeone as my baby\u2019s bawling.<br \/>\nOn my face the tears are falling;<br \/>\nsuffering such indignity.<br \/>\nMy hands I am wringing, kneading,<br \/>\nhoping this time you will see<br \/>\nbut for God\u2019s grace, you could be me.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know the life I\u2019m leading?<br \/>\nNo you can\u2019t for you are speeding<br \/>\nwhile I stand here simply needing<br \/>\nproof of my humanity.<br \/>\nFind a way to keep on hauling<br \/>\nass so you won\u2019t be caught stalling!<br \/>\nIs it me you find appalling,<br \/>\nor must you rush back home to pee?<br \/>\nIt\u2019s alright, your eyes I\u2019m reading.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll pretend you just don\u2019t see<br \/>\nbut for God\u2019s grace, you could be me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Could Be Me I can see you as your feeding parking meters without heeding this sign I am holding, pleading, trying to feed my family. I see you on the cell phone calling someone as my baby\u2019s bawling. On my face the tears are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[680,1818,1796],"class_list":["post-24223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-apathy","tag-homeless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223","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\/839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28129,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223\/revisions\/28129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}