{"id":50744,"date":"2019-06-22T15:54:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50744"},"modified":"2019-06-23T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:04:13","slug":"mental-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/mental-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brain is a sparking live wire<br \/>\nWhile at rest, the wires stay still<\/p>\n<p>Thunder clap<br \/>\nThe wires scratch and shower me in sparks<\/p>\n<p>Car horn<br \/>\nThey brush each other and sparks sting my skin<\/p>\n<p>Car door<br \/>\nNeighbor&#8217;s door<br \/>\nSudden loud noise<br \/>\nThe shock knocks me out of my skin<\/p>\n<p>Recent chemical baths<br \/>\nHave created a safety coating<br \/>\nBut still things cut through<br \/>\nAnd my thoughts hit the floor<\/p>\n<p>Repetitive hits<br \/>\nThrow me off all day<\/p>\n<p>Day to day<br \/>\nThe tolerance level changes<\/p>\n<p>This is invisible<br \/>\nThe only sign my temper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brain is a sparking live wire While at rest, the wires stay still Thunder clap The wires scratch and shower me in sparks Car horn They brush each other and sparks sting my skin Car door Neighbor&#8217;s door Sudden loud noise The shock knocks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50744","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50753,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50744\/revisions\/50753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}