{"id":26503,"date":"2016-08-14T01:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26503"},"modified":"2016-08-14T01:44:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:44:35","slug":"imperfect-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/imperfect-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperfect Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep the pieces<\/p>\n<p>of the angel ball.<\/p>\n<p>They are too lovely<\/p>\n<p>to discard&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>hand painted wings<\/p>\n<p>and stars and sky<\/p>\n<p>(and dried red<\/p>\n<p>peppers in a bunch)<\/p>\n<p>on egg-shell slivered<\/p>\n<p>glass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ideas broke my heart . . .<\/p>\n<p><em>be perfect, which you cannot be<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I struggle to explain.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0shards did not<\/p>\n<p>go back as planned.<\/p>\n<p>The pieces fall to earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep the pieces of the angel ball. They are too lovely to discard&#8211; hand painted wings and stars and sky (and dried red peppers in a bunch) on egg-shell slivered glass. &nbsp; Ideas broke my heart . . . be perfect, which you cannot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[1974,1134],"class_list":["post-26503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-hour-seventeen","tag-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26503","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=26503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26670,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26503\/revisions\/26670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}