{"id":35404,"date":"2017-08-05T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35404"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:27:43","slug":"the-art-of-self-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-art-of-self-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Self Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #5c0707\"><em>So now you look at me like you never knew<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5c0707\"><em>How could you not?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5c0707\"><em>I speak the way I&#8217;ve always spoken\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5c0707\"><em>Dress and walk and posture the same\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5c0707\"><em>I saw the same affections as ever<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5c0707\"><em>There has been no reason to question me, never\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5c0707\"><em>You can&#8217;t redefine what I feel inside<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5c0707\"><em>Just because you choose now to see me\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5c0707\"><em>I believe what I believe, understand what&#8217;s true to me, cast away what does not fit\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5c0707\"><em>My truth, I walk &#8211; live &#8211; breathe it\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5c0707\"><em>You get no say in who I am or am not<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>jj2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now you look at me like you never knew How could you not? I speak the way I&#8217;ve always spoken\u00a0 Dress and walk and posture the same\u00a0 I saw the same affections as ever There has been no reason to question me, never\u00a0 You&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,1136,441,5,1],"tags":[680,23,31,146,326,410,15,355,2116,1628,192,2292],"class_list":["post-35404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","category-uncategorized","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-life","tag-love","tag-love-inspiration","tag-marathon","tag-memories","tag-poem","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-poetrymarathon2017","tag-prompt","tag-self","tag-self-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35404","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\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35501,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35404\/revisions\/35501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}