{"id":37528,"date":"2017-08-05T18:57:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37528"},"modified":"2017-08-05T18:57:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:57:23","slug":"her-bruises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/her-bruises\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Bruises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a tough color to get<br \/>\nPurple fades<br \/>\ninto blue fades<br \/>\ninto green fades<br \/>\ninto yellow fades<br \/>\ninto her flesh.<br \/>\nYou can see each one<br \/>\nbut can\u2019t separate them<br \/>\nfrom the source.<br \/>\nA fist to the eye.<br \/>\nA foot to the rib.<br \/>\nA knee to the thigh.<br \/>\nAre we really still asking why?<br \/>\nThere is no why<br \/>\nonly this what.<br \/>\nStop pretending<br \/>\nyou don\u2019t see it<br \/>\ndon\u2019t understand<br \/>\nhow.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s gone on too long.<br \/>\nReally, it\u2019s not that difficult<br \/>\nto understand &#8211;<br \/>\nonly to do<br \/>\nanything about it.<br \/>\nAnd there&#8217;s the question<br \/>\nwhy.<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 10: Write a poem where color plays an important role. How you choose to interpret that role is up to you.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a tough color to get Purple fades into blue fades into green fades into yellow fades into her flesh. You can see each one but can\u2019t separate them from the source. A fist to the eye. A foot to the rib. A knee to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37528","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37549,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37528\/revisions\/37549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}