{"id":47248,"date":"2019-06-22T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47248"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:07:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:07:32","slug":"hour-two-bodysong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-two-bodysong\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour two: Bodysong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dig my fingertips down<br \/>\ninto the soil<br \/>\npast the point of warmth<br \/>\nin search of the dandelion\u2019s root <\/p>\n<p>&amp; I might as well be standing before a mirror<br \/>\nrunning my palms along every fold<br \/>\nand crevice that screams woman<br \/>\npinching my cellulite as if I could<br \/>\npluck it from the surface of me <\/p>\n<p>the earth seeps through<br \/>\nthe fabric of my gloves<br \/>\nfinding home beneath<br \/>\nmy fingernails <\/p>\n<p>I ask myself<br \/>\nwhen was the first time<br \/>\nI thought of myself as a boy<br \/>\nor at least as something<br \/>\nthat was not a girl<\/p>\n<p>&amp; if my womanhood can<br \/>\nonce and for all be plucked<br \/>\nfrom this body<br \/>\nor if I\u2019ll spend the rest of my life<br \/>\nwatching it sprout yellow<br \/>\nturn to the wind &amp;<br \/>\nscatter across my surface <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dig my fingertips down into the soil past the point of warmth in search of the dandelion\u2019s root &amp; I might as well be standing before a mirror running my palms along every fold and crevice that screams woman pinching my cellulite as if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248","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\/1091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47251,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248\/revisions\/47251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}