{"id":26983,"date":"2016-08-14T03:42:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26983"},"modified":"2016-08-14T04:26:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T08:26:58","slug":"19-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/19-3\/","title":{"rendered":"19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can glow if you do not? The lungs are mostly water<br \/>\nand easily drowned. In the desert I breathe thin air and cough<br \/>\nsand in my sleep. I have more cousins bit by bats than scorpions.<\/p>\n<p>Our balance is unsteady inside walls and we lean on the cave<br \/>\nfor safety. The shot for rabies is thick as milk in the muscle.<br \/>\nThe scorpions are mostly seen, except my brother stung<\/p>\n<p>while talking to a girl and lifting a dish rag. He said he was going<br \/>\nto wash. His arm numb for weeks. The body vibrates its own<br \/>\nfrequency. I hear skin purr when it\u2019s happy. How do I<\/p>\n<p>prepare for the monster? How do I know when it\u2019s come?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can glow if you do not? The lungs are mostly water and easily drowned. In the desert I breathe thin air and cough sand in my sleep. I have more cousins bit by bats than scorpions. Our balance is unsteady inside walls and we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27366,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983\/revisions\/27366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}