{"id":38010,"date":"2017-08-05T19:37:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38010"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:37:06","slug":"long-lasting-laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/long-lasting-laundry\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Lasting Laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-Lasting Laundry<\/p>\n<p>On Saturdays, I do laundry.<br \/>\nBut before I put T- Shirts,<br \/>\nsocks, and underwear in the clothes<br \/>\nwasher, I turn them inside out.<br \/>\nI\u2019m told that that\u2019s how I can make<br \/>\nthem last longer: the colors will<br \/>\nremain more vibrant.<\/p>\n<p>On other days, I write poetry.<br \/>\nBut before I save my thoughts, words<br \/>\nand phrases on the computer,<br \/>\nI turn them inside out.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve learned that that\u2019s how I can make<br \/>\nthem last longer, too.<\/p>\n<p>I grab each word by its collar,<br \/>\nI spin each phrase around,<br \/>\nI flip each idea over and over,<br \/>\nto ensure my poems, like my<br \/>\nlaundry, will come out much cleaner,<br \/>\nbrighter and well folded.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-Lasting Laundry On Saturdays, I do laundry. But before I put T- Shirts, socks, and underwear in the clothes washer, I turn them inside out. I\u2019m told that that\u2019s how I can make them last longer: the colors will remain more vibrant. On other days,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38015,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010\/revisions\/38015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}