{"id":49960,"date":"2019-06-22T14:28:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49960"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:55:01","slug":"2019-6-escape-plan-small-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/2019-6-escape-plan-small-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 #6 Escape Plan (Small Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If I had my way<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I would expand the box around me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Right now it keeps me in<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So small I lie in perpetual fetal bliss<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A state of constant contraction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To flee-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I might blow gently at the corners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Letting the womb\u2019s edges rise against their weakened seams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Worn by time and inaction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Until I sailed high enough, so like a delicate bubble<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It pops, oh so softly, leaving me to drift in midair-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But if it were so easy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I would have surely done that by now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead, I would be better to fight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unwrap my legs and smash the sides out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As if my life depended on it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Because it does<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Because there is no life inside this tiny box<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That contains my tiny life.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had my way I would expand the box around me Right now it keeps me in So small I lie in perpetual fetal bliss A state of constant contraction. To flee- I might blow gently at the corners Letting the womb\u2019s edges rise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49960","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\/959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49980,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49960\/revisions\/49980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}