{"id":49060,"date":"2019-06-22T13:07:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49060"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:07:22","slug":"hour-4-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-4-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>an ode to my body<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i say a prayer to my skin every morning<br \/>\na ritual of water, lotion, &amp; lavender essential oil<br \/>\ncandles lit<br \/>\nhymns flowing around me<br \/>\nrecognition of my divinity<br \/>\ntaking inventory of the terrain<br \/>\nthe varying hues of brown<br \/>\neczema scars (meaning delicate)<br \/>\nstretch marks <em>(meaning growth)\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nuneven tan lines<em> (meaning sun kissed)<\/em><br \/>\nhair everywhere society tells me it shouldn\u2019t be <em>(meaning fuck you)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>i said a prayer to my<br \/>\nbody this morning<br \/>\nwhen i shaved my head<br \/>\nwhen i let go of my small curls<br \/>\nlet go of my larger worries<\/p>\n<p>this isn\u2019t a love\/hate relationship<br \/>\nthese bones can\u2019t afford to harbor anymore hate<br \/>\nbut love isn\u2019t always easy<br \/>\nin love there are still apologies<br \/>\nstill insecurities<br \/>\nin love there is still harm<br \/>\nbut most importantly there is always softness<br \/>\nalways care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an ode to my body i say a prayer to my skin every morning a ritual of water, lotion, &amp; lavender essential oil candles lit hymns flowing around me recognition of my divinity taking inventory of the terrain the varying hues of brown eczema scars&#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-49060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060","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=49060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49092,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060\/revisions\/49092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}