{"id":31638,"date":"2017-08-05T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31638"},"modified":"2017-08-05T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:20:21","slug":"ghost-shelves-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/ghost-shelves-124\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost shelves 1\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I was a better story teller,<br \/>\nwould my teeth still be shoved in the spine of this book?<br \/>\nGumming through the pages of our torrid love affair,<br \/>\nswallowing the chapters I didn&#8217;t like.<br \/>\nNone of this added up,<br \/>\nan entire encyclopedia but not an ounce of truth.<br \/>\nI saw you taping over the facts and scribbling with stolen paint markers about what had and hadn&#8217;t happened.<br \/>\nI felt my hands turn red and my face even redder,<br \/>\nmy neck bending from the pressure of the burden you put on my back.<br \/>\nYou left me with all these books and nothing to write about.<br \/>\nEvery time you opened your mouth,<br \/>\nI lost another muse.<br \/>\nPlease stop saying my name in your sleep,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re not the only one being haunted,<br \/>\nand my ghosts don&#8217;t live on a shelf, like yours. <!--Clip_XXXX_170805_091819_519--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I was a better story teller, would my teeth still be shoved in the spine of this book? Gumming through the pages of our torrid love affair, swallowing the chapters I didn&#8217;t like. None of this added up, an entire encyclopedia but not an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31638","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31662,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31638\/revisions\/31662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}