{"id":25222,"date":"2016-08-13T21:40:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25222"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:40:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:40:30","slug":"glory-poorly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/glory-poorly\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory, Poorly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cows mooed as I held your trembling torso<br \/>\nthrough the seizures.<br \/>\nYour eyes reflected the moon when you came to;<br \/>\nI startled at my first womanly moment.<br \/>\nI knew I wanted to lay down, and stroke you breastbone to navel.<\/p>\n<p>My fumbling reinforced your recovery.<br \/>\nYou wouldn&#8217;t let me be late.<br \/>\nThat was your excuse.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t have the emotional vocabulary to truck with your banter,<br \/>\nor you would have been my first<br \/>\ninstead of, years later, a man who didn&#8217;t know<br \/>\nwhat he was taking<br \/>\nunder the canopy.<\/p>\n<p>Our breath fogged in front of us<br \/>\nas we jogged back to your beat-up jeep<br \/>\nand rolled past the lake,<br \/>\nat once,<br \/>\naustere and serene.<br \/>\nYou made me laugh, all the way home<br \/>\nbut I felt your panic.<\/p>\n<p>The porch light was on,<br \/>\nand you reached past me<br \/>\nto open my door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cows mooed as I held your trembling torso through the seizures. Your eyes reflected the moon when you came to; I startled at my first womanly moment. I knew I wanted to lay down, and stroke you breastbone to navel. My fumbling reinforced your recovery&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25222","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25234,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25222\/revisions\/25234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}