{"id":37434,"date":"2017-08-05T18:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37434"},"modified":"2017-08-05T18:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:46:47","slug":"a-scar-and-a-blood-blister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/a-scar-and-a-blood-blister\/","title":{"rendered":"A scar and a blood blister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X marks the spot<br \/>\non my lip where<br \/>\nI was kissed by<br \/>\nthe hollow rusted<br \/>\nhandle of a fought-<br \/>\nover sledge hammer<br \/>\npulled from the<br \/>\nfists of my nine<br \/>\nyear old brother.<\/p>\n<p>A blood blister<br \/>\nswelled against<br \/>\nmy bottom front<br \/>\nteeth while the<br \/>\noutside was held<br \/>\ntogether with<br \/>\na butterfly stitch,<br \/>\nand I wasn&#8217;t allowed<br \/>\nto watch tv for a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X marks the spot on my lip where I was kissed by the hollow rusted handle of a fought- over sledge hammer pulled from the fists of my nine year old brother. A blood blister swelled against my bottom front teeth while the outside was&#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-37434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37434","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=37434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37451,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37434\/revisions\/37451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}