{"id":32661,"date":"2017-08-05T10:59:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32661"},"modified":"2017-08-05T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:59:39","slug":"living-in-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/living-in-exile\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home was an uncomplicated space\u2014<br \/>\na quiet verticality with room to stretch,<br \/>\nnot a place for harshly phrased missives<br \/>\nnailed to the door, parting the lovely grain.<\/p>\n<p>This new country is no promised land.<br \/>\nThe natives are ill-mannered\u2014<br \/>\nall teeth and lips, they cluster in throngs<br \/>\nwith a great cacophony.<\/p>\n<p>Was the mother land that bad?<br \/>\nIts ravages worse than this so-called peace?<br \/>\nWe do not refuse the language out of pride\u2014<br \/>\nit is simply too loud to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home was an uncomplicated space\u2014 a quiet verticality with room to stretch, not a place for harshly phrased missives nailed to the door, parting the lovely grain. This new country is no promised land. The natives are ill-mannered\u2014 all teeth and lips, they cluster in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1067,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32661","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\/1067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32671,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32661\/revisions\/32671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}