These were the shoes<\/p>\n
I bought with the first paycheck<\/p>\n
Of my first full-time job<\/p>\n
Even as they get old<\/p>\n
And fall into disrepair<\/p>\n
I still keep them<\/p>\n
And occasionally wear them<\/p>\n
My badge of honor<\/p>\n
I should get a shadow box<\/p>\n
And memorialize<\/p>\n
This moment of celebratory materialism<\/p>\n
The day I bought my first and last pair<\/p>\n
Of orange shoes<\/p>\n
With Boston terriers on them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These were the shoes I bought with the first paycheck Of my first full-time job Even as they get old And fall into disrepair I still keep them And occasionally wear them My badge of honor I should get a shadow box And memorialize This…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":867,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27885","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\/867"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27906,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27885\/revisions\/27906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}