{"id":40654,"date":"2017-08-06T01:44:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40654"},"modified":"2017-08-06T01:44:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:44:25","slug":"a-loss-of-heart-hour-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/a-loss-of-heart-hour-17\/","title":{"rendered":"A Loss of Heart (Hour 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regret\u2019s lingering hand still clasped to the remnants of atrial cities,<br \/>\nRuinous tombs suppressed beneath the corridors of vena cava catacombs,<br \/>\nHalls of hollowed entrails are a tangled labyrinth of intersecting lava tubes,<br \/>\nWhere feeding worms devoured their own escape routes.<\/p>\n<p>They eat the wilting decay at the edge of ventricle petals,<br \/>\nLeaving disfigured chambers to swell with vitiated blood<br \/>\nPumping thinned oxygen to struggling organs with an unaccented cadence.<\/p>\n<p>I have gained an emptiness that aerates the paralysis of grief.<br \/>\nI have gained a tolerance to pain I can no longer feel burying its wound inside me.<br \/>\nI have gained a new resistance to the misleading folly of intuition,<br \/>\nI have gained an immunity to love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regret\u2019s lingering hand still clasped to the remnants of atrial cities, Ruinous tombs suppressed beneath the corridors of vena cava catacombs, Halls of hollowed entrails are a tangled labyrinth of intersecting lava tubes, Where feeding worms devoured their own escape routes. They eat the wilting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40654","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40664,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40654\/revisions\/40664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}