{"id":52024,"date":"2019-06-22T18:08:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52024"},"modified":"2019-06-22T18:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:08:45","slug":"transit-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/transit-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit to Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">A ceiling inches from my face<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hides the kitchen and my rocker,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Collapsed into a tidy bundle.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I turn carefully, legs cramped from stillness.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Another month or two, then, perhaps I\u2019ll be free.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Are they gone? Am I too late to save<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Only those that I love?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Or will I save us all?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I jump to a conclusion.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Surely their boundless evil knows no limits;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Or am I their sole exploitation,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Plucked at least a thousand times<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">By names nameless to me?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Are we really led by frogs and stalwart toads,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Blinded by tattered fabric, kept sewn by the votary public?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ceiling inches from my face Hides the kitchen and my rocker, Collapsed into a tidy bundle. I turn carefully, legs cramped from stillness. Another month or two, then, perhaps I\u2019ll be free. Are they gone? Am I too late to save Only those that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52024","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52041,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52024\/revisions\/52041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}