{"id":38965,"date":"2017-08-05T21:21:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38965"},"modified":"2017-08-05T21:21:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:21:40","slug":"july-28-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/july-28-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"July 28, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my third cup<br \/>\nof tea, I learned<br \/>\nyour hair is red<br \/>\nlike mine in sunlight,<br \/>\nthat your nose turns<br \/>\nupward. Slightly.<br \/>\nThat your mouth<br \/>\ncurls like ribbon<br \/>\nwhen I smile.<br \/>\nBrown was always<br \/>\njust brown until<br \/>\nI loved your brown<br \/>\neyes and the way they<br \/>\nsquint at my puns.<\/p>\n<p>Please stop picking at your nails.<\/p>\n<p>On my third cup<br \/>\nof tea, you sang<br \/>\nto me, pressing<br \/>\nfear from my shoulders<br \/>\nwith snowman fingers,<br \/>\nletting it drip<br \/>\ndown my arms into<br \/>\nmy tingling fingertips.<br \/>\nHands were just hands<br \/>\nuntil yours held<br \/>\nmy waist, held me<br \/>\nclose, tried to<br \/>\nclutch my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my third cup of tea, I learned your hair is red like mine in sunlight, that your nose turns upward. Slightly. That your mouth curls like ribbon when I smile. Brown was always just brown until I loved your brown eyes and the way&#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-38965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38965","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=38965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39003,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38965\/revisions\/39003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}