{"id":4395,"date":"2014-08-24T08:48:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2014-08-24T08:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:48:31","slug":"anvil-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/anvil-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"anvil diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sometimes people tell me<br \/>\nto stop worrying about<br \/>\nmy weight<br \/>\nlike i hadn&#8217;t already been trying<br \/>\nlike the idea of<br \/>\nshoving the worry to recess on the moon<br \/>\nwasn&#8217;t already my favorite<br \/>\ni carry the launch in my backpack<br \/>\non the way to school<br \/>\nsometimes<br \/>\nignorance sounds a lot like<br \/>\n&#8220;you don&#8217;t even need a diet&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;you&#8217;re not that big&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;life is too short to worry about it&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>life is too long<br \/>\nto be stuck longing to be<br \/>\nyourself in a different way<br \/>\nto say &#8220;i will always be here<br \/>\ni will just change the way<br \/>\nyou see me<br \/>\ni will be altering my first impressions<br \/>\nand my right to exist&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>this weight is an anvil.<\/p>\n<p>ignorance sounds a lot like<br \/>\n&#8220;size doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;you&#8217;re beautiful despite it&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;you&#8217;re too young to worry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>but too damn<br \/>\nold to waste any more of a lifetime<br \/>\nthrowing dimes into wishing wells<br \/>\nand picking up lucky pennies<br \/>\nasking for self control<br \/>\na smaller jean size<br \/>\nthe relief echoes<br \/>\nas i walk down<br \/>\nthe stairs<br \/>\nto being<br \/>\nmyself<br \/>\nagain<br \/>\nmy<br \/>\nidentity<br \/>\nrests within<br \/>\nmy ability to shrink.<\/p>\n<p>__ar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sometimes people tell me to stop worrying about my weight like i hadn&#8217;t already been trying like the idea of shoving the worry to recess on the moon wasn&#8217;t already my favorite i carry the launch in my backpack on the way to school sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}