{"id":49308,"date":"2019-06-22T13:57:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49308"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:03:05","slug":"checking-in-h5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/checking-in-h5\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking In (H5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will not<br \/>\nI will not<br \/>\nI will not<br \/>\ncheck the door<br \/>\nthe lock<br \/>\nthe handle<br \/>\nonly to be flung back<br \/>\nagainst the wall when your<br \/>\nyour hatefulness bursts across the<br \/>\nthreshold without even breaking a sweat.<\/p>\n<p>I will not.<br \/>\nI will not<br \/>\nI will not<br \/>\ncower in a corner<br \/>\nas you pepper my space<br \/>\nand spray my pink and green walls<br \/>\nwith the buttons and blood<br \/>\nof all I kiss goodnight<\/p>\n<p>No.<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nI will not check the door<br \/>\nthe lock<br \/>\nthe handle<br \/>\nand help you get in<br \/>\nonly to wreak havoc and pain<br \/>\nleave me afraid&#8230;ashamed&#8230;alone.<\/p>\n<p>No!<br \/>\nNo!<br \/>\nNo!<br \/>\nI will not.<br \/>\nI will not.<br \/>\nI will not<br \/>\ntake the bait,<br \/>\ncheck the door<br \/>\nthe lock<br \/>\nthe handle<\/p>\n<p>I will not<br \/>\nI will not<br \/>\nI will not<br \/>\nlet you in<br \/>\nby checking whether you&#8217;re locked out.<\/p>\n<p>No.<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nI will not.<br \/>\nI will not.<br \/>\nI will not<\/p>\n<p>Damn it.<br \/>\nI will.<br \/>\nAgain.<br \/>\nAnd again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will not I will not I will not check the door the lock the handle only to be flung back against the wall when your your hatefulness bursts across the threshold without even breaking a sweat. I will not. I will not I will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49308","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\/1066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49652,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49308\/revisions\/49652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}