{"id":47570,"date":"2019-06-22T10:56:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47570"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:59:24","slug":"hour-2-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-2-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Missing Womanhood<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>i don\u2019t know how you can miss something that you didn\u2019t want<\/div>\n<div>how you can miss something that was assigned to you<\/div>\n<div>to reinforce the same gender binary that was forced on your ancestors<\/div>\n<div>forced on indigenous folx<\/div>\n<div>i don\u2019t know how you can miss something that doesn\u2019t exist<\/div>\n<div>a social construct<\/div>\n<div>a performance art piece<\/div>\n<div>a series of taught expectations &amp; behaviors<\/div>\n<div>how can you miss something that was never for you<\/div>\n<div>never for your blackness<\/div>\n<div>never for your queerness<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>maybe you miss the comfort<\/div>\n<div>maybe you miss not having to explain the dip of your hips &amp; the curve of your breasts<\/div>\n<div>the ease of a body that is easy for assumption<\/div>\n<div>easy for consumption<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>you know that you don\u2019t miss the tightness of your throat when you have to correct your pronouns<\/div>\n<div><i>they &amp; them<\/i><\/div>\n<div>don\u2019t miss the drop in your gut when you have to explain your identity<\/div>\n<div><i>B<\/i><i>lack,<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>queer, non-binary, femme<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>but womanhood never fit you<\/div>\n<div>you never wanted it to<\/div>\n<div>so you\u2019re not looking for it anymore<\/div>\n<div>not aspiring to it anymore<\/div>\n<div>it was never mine to have<\/div>\n<div>never mine to miss<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Written in response to the Winter Tangerine prompt below:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47614\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/winter-tangerine-prompt-1-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/winter-tangerine-prompt-1-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/winter-tangerine-prompt-1-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/winter-tangerine-prompt-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing Womanhood i don\u2019t know how you can miss something that you didn\u2019t want how you can miss something that was assigned to you to reinforce the same gender binary that was forced on your ancestors forced on indigenous folx i don\u2019t know how you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47570","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\/1261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47628,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47570\/revisions\/47628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}