{"id":48449,"date":"2019-06-22T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48449"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:24:49","slug":"up-for-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/up-for-interpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"Up for Interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>I scroll through all the pictures,\r\nTrying to decipher their messages.\r\nTrying to really see them, yet\r\nUncomprehending what they mean.\r\n\r\nA photo of a boat on the azure water catches my eye.\r\nImmediate, visceral outrage \r\nOil spilling on the pristine waters.\r\n(Oil spills are the only context in which \u2018pristine\u2019 is used anymore. \r\nWhy can\u2019t they pollute polluted water instead?)\r\n\r\nMy rage is distracted by my reflection in the screen.\r\nIt\u2019s been a little over a week \r\nand I\u2019m still not sure if I like my hair cut this way.\r\nI have spikes and horns enough for a dragon.\r\n\r\nI take my device inside\r\nTo stop seeing my reflection\r\nExpanding the picture to feel \r\nThe anger inside once again.\r\n\r\nMy thumb and finger slide away from each other\r\nto reveal that the picture is of a boat moored near coral.\r\nThere is no oil spill.\r\nNever mind.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I scroll through all the pictures, Trying to decipher their messages. Trying to really see them, yet Uncomprehending what they mean. A photo of a boat on the azure water catches my eye. Immediate, visceral outrage Oil spilling on the pristine waters. (Oil spills are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[1417],"class_list":["post-48449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-hour4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48449","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48651,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48449\/revisions\/48651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}