{"id":30469,"date":"2017-07-27T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=30469"},"modified":"2017-08-05T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:53:08","slug":"introduction-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/introduction-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am slender wrists; bright eyed.<\/p>\n<p>Scarred knuckles; tan thigh-ed.<\/p>\n<p>Salty hair; air dried.<\/p>\n<p>Alliteration drowned in high tide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spilling words or wine,<\/p>\n<p>So long as they are both mine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here to give myself a break from the constant<\/p>\n<p>shaking<\/p>\n<p>from containing the avalanches of<\/p>\n<p>stanzas<\/p>\n<p>building up behind my lips<\/p>\n<p>curled inside the places where<\/p>\n<p>I bite them when I feel pressure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is something challenging and new;<\/p>\n<p>a more satisfying way to<\/p>\n<p>process all that&#8217;s happened with you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30477\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/generalinspo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"generalinspo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/generalinspo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/generalinspo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/generalinspo-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/generalinspo-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/generalinspo.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am slender wrists; bright eyed. Scarred knuckles; tan thigh-ed. Salty hair; air dried. Alliteration drowned in high tide. &nbsp; Spilling words or wine, So long as they are both mine. &nbsp; I&#8217;m here to give myself a break from the constant shaking from containing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37513,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469\/revisions\/37513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}