{"id":34757,"date":"2017-08-05T14:18:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34757"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:18:25","slug":"up-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/up-against\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Against"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up against it.<br \/>\nIt moved, as I stood still.<br \/>\nI fight it-<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s haunting hands<br \/>\nhold what it will.<\/p>\n<p>Up against it.<br \/>\nStronger, stronger than I.<br \/>\nMy back rests-<br \/>\nIt is holding me<br \/>\nlike time.<\/p>\n<p>Up against it.<br \/>\nA reflection, unrecognized.<br \/>\nFight my demons-<br \/>\nAdversaries stronger than<br \/>\nbrick and Father Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up against it. It moved, as I stood still. I fight it- It&#8217;s haunting hands hold what it will. Up against it. Stronger, stronger than I. My back rests- It is holding me like time. Up against it. A reflection, unrecognized. Fight my demons- Adversaries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34757","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\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34765,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34757\/revisions\/34765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}