{"id":36182,"date":"2017-08-05T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36182"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:44:35","slug":"8-blazing-off-nervous-tension-having-a-breakdown-ted-hughes-the-badlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/8-blazing-off-nervous-tension-having-a-breakdown-ted-hughes-the-badlands\/","title":{"rendered":"#8 \u201cBlazing off nervous tension, having a breakdown\u201d-Ted Hughes, The Badlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you could see inside me you might glimpse the fire blazing<\/p>\n<p>Smoke confined to the inside, carrying the flames off<\/p>\n<p>To the four corners of my psyche, producing a nervous<\/p>\n<p>But persistent quiver that breaks the tension<\/p>\n<p>Of keeping the sadness at bay, of having<\/p>\n<p>To hold it all in, suffocating my voice with a<\/p>\n<p>Hard hand at my mind\u2019s wheel, steering directly into the breakdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you could see inside me you might glimpse the fire blazing Smoke confined to the inside, carrying the flames off To the four corners of my psyche, producing a nervous But persistent quiver that breaks the tension Of keeping the sadness at bay, of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182","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\/959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36204,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182\/revisions\/36204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}