{"id":37381,"date":"2017-08-05T18:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37381"},"modified":"2017-08-05T18:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:43:41","slug":"small-hands-vs-curling-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/small-hands-vs-curling-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"Small hands vs. curling iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my hands were small, I clutched<br \/>\nthe wand of my mother&#8217;s<br \/>\ncurling iron, plucked from atop<br \/>\nthe deep freezer on Madden Drive.<br \/>\nI held it to see how long it took<br \/>\nbefore I had to cry out in pain&#8211; I<br \/>\nsmelled burning hot dogs, flesh<br \/>\nturning red but not yet black.<br \/>\nMy palm was cold, no pain, but<br \/>\nsomething told me to release, to drop<br \/>\nit on my toes. When I stepped back,<br \/>\nI heard my mother in the kitchen<br \/>\ncalling to me as one does to check<br \/>\non a silent two year old. I cried<br \/>\nagainst my will, triumphant yet defeated<br \/>\nas my mother&#8217;s hurried footsteps approached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my hands were small, I clutched the wand of my mother&#8217;s curling iron, plucked from atop the deep freezer on Madden Drive. I held it to see how long it took before I had to cry out in pain&#8211; I smelled burning hot dogs,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37381","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37433,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37381\/revisions\/37433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}