{"id":32704,"date":"2017-08-05T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32704"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:38:37","slug":"eternity-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/eternity-now\/","title":{"rendered":"eternity now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>she buried ambition in the dirt<br \/>\nin the cemetery<br \/>\nnot by the lilac bushes<br \/>\nbut with the bodies,<br \/>\na rotting corpus of potential and desire<br \/>\nreeking of risk and rejection<\/p>\n<p>she asked me not to visit the cemetery<br \/>\nwhich is how I knew what was buried there<br \/>\nbut I went anyway<br \/>\nand left tulips already cut<br \/>\nwithout a vase or water,<br \/>\njust tulips lying upon the dirt<br \/>\nthe most appropriate tombstone<\/p>\n<p>she passed up promotions<br \/>\nsaid &#8220;no&#8221; to love<br \/>\nnever rode in an airplane or a train or a sailboat<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t have a library card<br \/>\nand didn&#8217;t keep a diary<br \/>\nshe was never in the room when someone was born<br \/>\nor someone died<br \/>\nuntil it was time for her<br \/>\nto be buried in the cemetery<br \/>\nin the dirt;<br \/>\nit was winter, and no one took flowers<br \/>\nor paid for the tombstone:<\/p>\n<p>a neon colored sign that will eventually fade,<\/p>\n<p>eternity now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>she buried ambition in the dirt in the cemetery not by the lilac bushes but with the bodies, a rotting corpus of potential and desire reeking of risk and rejection she asked me not to visit the cemetery which is how I knew what was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32704","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\/803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32810,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32704\/revisions\/32810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}