{"id":32437,"date":"2017-08-05T10:33:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32437"},"modified":"2017-08-05T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:33:01","slug":"combat-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/combat-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Combat boots"},"content":{"rendered":"

my mother\u2019s shoe boxes stack<\/span><\/p>\n

to the ceiling, a visual representation<\/span><\/p>\n

of all she left behind and all<\/span><\/p>\n

she never will. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

3am and his footprints<\/span><\/p>\n

are still in the hall, red<\/span><\/p>\n

boots with silver buckles. 10pm<\/span><\/p>\n

and she can hear her daughter<\/span><\/p>\n

crying softly in her room. \u00a0black<\/span><\/p>\n

ankle boots. \u00a0first date boots the <\/span><\/p>\n

ring is off her finger but the ghost<\/span><\/p>\n

of it still remains boots taking her children<\/span><\/p>\n

to the therapist boots mommy are you<\/span><\/p>\n

going to die like daddy did boots but<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

she walks them into <\/span><\/p>\n

a better life. \u00a0into hiking<\/span><\/p>\n

in the mountains of Vegas<\/span><\/p>\n

and buying a house that doesn\u2019t<\/span><\/p>\n

haunt her. \u00a0she tells me \u201cDon\u2019t let <\/span><\/p>\n

people define you. \u00a0If you need good <\/span><\/p>\n

support, then buy better shoes, and<\/span><\/p>\n

these?\u201d she says, \u201cthese are my <\/span><\/p>\n

getting married boots.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

my mother\u2019s shoe boxes stack to the ceiling, a visual representation of all she left behind and all she never will. \u00a0   3am and his footprints are still in the hall, red boots with silver buckles. 10pm and she can hear her daughter crying…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32437","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\/1091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32439,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32437\/revisions\/32439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}