{"id":34869,"date":"2017-08-05T14:39:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34869"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:50:31","slug":"i-left-my-heart-in-your-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/i-left-my-heart-in-your-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"I Left My Heart in Your Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and here\u2019s what they won\u2019t tell you about leaving: villains don\u2019t press their sweating scalps into pillows, desperate for sleep, eyes pricked open by the gathered dust of that day, pulse hammering too fast into the future (anywhere better than here\/now\/him\/then), skin braced against fingers that grope, insistent in the night. And here&#8217;s what finally broke my hope open\u2014I wear a strange curtness; carry fright like a badge, resigned to the thought of you that follows me, cage to cage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34980\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bird-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bird-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bird-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bird-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bird.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and here\u2019s what they won\u2019t tell you about leaving: villains don\u2019t press their sweating scalps into pillows, desperate for sleep, eyes pricked open by the gathered dust of that day, pulse hammering too fast into the future (anywhere better than here\/now\/him\/then), skin braced against fingers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2302,2223],"class_list":["post-34869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-poemsix","tag-poetryhalfmarathon2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34869","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\/988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34995,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34869\/revisions\/34995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}