{"id":35467,"date":"2017-08-05T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35467"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:28:21","slug":"hour-7-inside-and-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-7-inside-and-out\/","title":{"rendered":"hour 7: inside and out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever read a poem<br \/>\nthat rang so true<br \/>\nit punched you in the gut<br \/>\nand twisted the knife too?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBosselaar did this to me once.<br \/>\nHer poem which I read off a pixelated screen<br \/>\ncracked me into two<br \/>\nunraveled my intestine<br \/>\nuntil it was a single string,<br \/>\nit was the tightrope I walked,<br \/>\nuntil the imagery of the poem<br \/>\nleft me dangling in the air with my two bare hands,<br \/>\nand even when my arms grew weak,<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t feel fear of death<br \/>\nbecause finally this poem<br \/>\nhad spoken for me a truth<br \/>\nI\u2019d never realized<br \/>\nwas hiding just beneath my skin.<br \/>\nOr maybe I had buried it there and burned it from my memory,<br \/>\nbut even as I faced the horrors of this poem<br \/>\nas it wrote me inside out,<br \/>\nI wanted nothing more than to drag myself toward it,<br \/>\ntake two of its lines in my hands,<br \/>\nspread them apart, and drag myself into the spot between the lines of the poem<br \/>\nso I could feel<br \/>\na way I\u2019d never felt before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever read a poem that rang so true it punched you in the gut and twisted the knife too? &nbsp; Bosselaar did this to me once. Her poem which I read off a pixelated screen cracked me into two unraveled my intestine until&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467","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\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35508,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467\/revisions\/35508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}