{"id":46731,"date":"2019-06-22T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46731"},"modified":"2019-06-23T20:45:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:45:41","slug":"perceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/perceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do not think<br \/>\nI am nothing more<br \/>\nthan the garbs<br \/>\nupon my shoulders.<br \/>\nNor am I the hair that settles<br \/>\nagainst my painted cheeks.<br \/>\nBeauty is in the eye of the beholders<br \/>\nbut trust that I am not my eyes<br \/>\nor the mouth that speaks.<\/p>\n<p>I think I am the wind<br \/>\nor I want to be.<br \/>\nYearning on windows ridden<br \/>\nby a cool summer night\u2013begging to be let in<br \/>\nto embrace the sleepers and banish their heat.<br \/>\nMaybe I am the crosswalk countdown<br \/>\nor at the very least, I am the sound of children<br \/>\nscuffling their shoes on a busy sidewalk<br \/>\nin impatience to cross the street.<\/p>\n<p>But regardless of what I am<br \/>\nit is certainly not up to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not think I am nothing more than the garbs upon my shoulders. Nor am I the hair that settles against my painted cheeks. Beauty is in the eye of the beholders but trust that I am not my eyes or the mouth that speaks&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46731","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46772,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46731\/revisions\/46772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}