{"id":46381,"date":"2019-06-22T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46381"},"modified":"2019-06-22T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:50:07","slug":"i-am-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/i-am-8\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you are.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re a poet.<br \/>\nOh, I know I am.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been that since the first time Mama smiled<br \/>\nat my scribbles,<br \/>\nmy rhymes,<br \/>\nmy seven-year-old genius<br \/>\nthat only she could see.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you are.<br \/>\nYou are a cook.<br \/>\nOh, I know I am.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been one since I realized<br \/>\nno one else is going to feed me.<br \/>\nAfter a few decades,<br \/>\nand more than a few disasters,<br \/>\nI am a fine cook,<br \/>\nbut today is leftovers day.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you are.<br \/>\nYou are a friend.<br \/>\nI try to be, but sometimes I am needy,<br \/>\nsometimes I am distant,<br \/>\nsometimes wrapped up in a story,<br \/>\nbut sometimes I am there<br \/>\nwhen you need me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you are. You&#8217;re a poet. Oh, I know I am. I&#8217;ve been that since the first time Mama smiled at my scribbles, my rhymes, my seven-year-old genius that only she could see. Yes, you are. You are a cook. Oh, I know I am&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46381","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46462,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46381\/revisions\/46462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}