{"id":48600,"date":"2019-06-22T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48600"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:24:15","slug":"i-the-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/i-the-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"I, the Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>you nagging sparrows, stay away!<br \/>\nsee my eyes, watching always.<br \/>\nsee my trophies, certificates, grades.<br \/>\nsee my pride, demons, stay away!<\/p>\n<p>do not look too close, I pray.<br \/>\ndo not see this painted fraud.<br \/>\ndo not see my scales and pride<br \/>\ncrumbling slightly under stress.<\/p>\n<p>see these colors! they mean poison!<br \/>\nsee my smile, it means I&#8217;m fine.<br \/>\nsee the forest, not the trees.<br \/>\npay no attention to those rotting leaves.<\/p>\n<p>do not touch the butterfly:<br \/>\nyou will cripple its wings forever.<br \/>\ndo not inspect my state of mind:<br \/>\nthis facade is holding me together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you nagging sparrows, stay away! see my eyes, watching always. see my trophies, certificates, grades. see my pride, demons, stay away! do not look too close, I pray. do not see this painted fraud. do not see my scales and pride crumbling slightly under stress&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48600","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48644,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48600\/revisions\/48644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}