{"id":36246,"date":"2017-08-05T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36246"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:51:09","slug":"were-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/were-okay\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>inspired by \u201cThree\u201d by Anne Carson<\/p>\n<p>It is something we never mentioned before. But it<br \/>\nis as if it grew on our skin since we were born. Is,<br \/>\nas you asked repeatedly, everything okay? It\u2019s not as<br \/>\nif no one would ever know what happened. But even if<br \/>\nwe broadcast everything over the media for all ears, we<br \/>\nhave kept our word! There\u2019ll be no revenge. We have<br \/>\nall done what was necessary. Right? We have all<\/p>\n<p>been exonerated. Breathe easy now. Everyone else has been<br \/>\nlowered into the container. Only two of them have glowered<br \/>\ninto space between us. Now they are unable to gain entry into<br \/>\nanyplace near here. We\u2019ll soon be safely breathing deeply of an<br \/>\natmosphere that is safe. The newly developed green atmosphere<br \/>\nof recycled materials \u2014 healthier than the original, made mainly of<br \/>\nglass. We\u2019ll soon be okay again, perfectly encased in and under glass. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inspired by \u201cThree\u201d by Anne Carson It is something we never mentioned before. But it is as if it grew on our skin since we were born. Is, as you asked repeatedly, everything okay? It\u2019s not as if no one would ever know what happened&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36269,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246\/revisions\/36269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}