{"id":31591,"date":"2017-08-05T09:44:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31591"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:51:41","slug":"in-my-element-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/in-my-element-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"In My Element &#8211; Pain &#8211; Hour One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not my idea of fun<\/p>\n<p>To light a fuse and run<\/p>\n<p>From the flame<\/p>\n<p>Playing\u00a0catch with blame &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Tossing it between us like a hot potato<\/p>\n<p>Ripped from the Earth<\/p>\n<p>Where I left hasty skidded footprints<\/p>\n<p>As I chased sorrow<\/p>\n<p>Ending the trail where I squatted to give birth<\/p>\n<p>To a lonely tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>Grown since I met you from a blind embryo<\/p>\n<p>Bloodying the earth and dirt<\/p>\n<p>With the afterbirth of hurt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When my waters broke<\/p>\n<p>And poured from my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>They somehow spoke<\/p>\n<p>And ruined my disguise<\/p>\n<p>And the winds of change\u00a0performed a dance macabre<\/p>\n<p>Through holes bored by lies<\/p>\n<p>Deep in my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not my idea of fun To light a fuse and run From the flame Playing\u00a0catch with blame &#8211; Tossing it between us like a hot potato Ripped from the Earth Where I left hasty skidded footprints As I chased sorrow Ending the trail where I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31591","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35710,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31591\/revisions\/35710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}