{"id":3077,"date":"2014-08-23T20:04:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T00:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2014-08-23T20:04:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T00:04:38","slug":"the-consuming-and-raging-war-of-the-poetics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-consuming-and-raging-war-of-the-poetics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Consuming and Raging War of The Poetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part XII<\/p>\n<p>after admitting to myself<br \/>\nthat if I didn\u2019t let go of the alcohol,<br \/>\nit would swallow me,<br \/>\nas it had swallowed him,<br \/>\nas I swallowed it\u2026<br \/>\nI prayed upon a wood,<br \/>\nan August sky uncharacteristically cool and stormy,<br \/>\nI prayed that God have mercy on my drunk soul,<br \/>\nI prayed that He give me strength to love my husband,<br \/>\nsoberly and with strength.<\/p>\n<p>I approached the patio doors,<br \/>\nthe clock reflected 9:20 at night,<br \/>\nmy husband was passed out on the floor,<br \/>\nhe must have tripped over the laundry basket \u2013<br \/>\nthere he slept,<br \/>\ntangled in clean clothes and a white plastic basket;<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t try to rouse the bear,<br \/>\nI stumbled to bed \u2013 dizzy and alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Michellia D. Wilson 8\/23\/14 7:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part XII after admitting to myself that if I didn\u2019t let go of the alcohol, it would swallow me, as it had swallowed him, as I swallowed it\u2026 I prayed upon a wood, an August sky uncharacteristically cool and stormy, I prayed that God have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}