{"id":52224,"date":"2019-06-22T18:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52224"},"modified":"2019-06-23T16:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:03:44","slug":"your-own-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/your-own-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Own Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been ruminating<br \/>\nOn the idea of personal pantheons<\/p>\n<p>The people that we relied on<br \/>\nWho helped us<br \/>\nWhen we didn&#8217;t have anything<br \/>\nWho advised us<br \/>\nWhen we entirely fucked up<br \/>\nWho loved us<br \/>\nWhen we were at our worst<\/p>\n<p>My first was an amputee with a huge laugh<br \/>\nSecond, another amputee with a sharp tongue<br \/>\nFrom there, it was opinionated women<br \/>\nAnd men who loved the theater<br \/>\nFollowed by motorcycle riders<br \/>\nBartenders<br \/>\nDrunks<br \/>\nThieves<br \/>\nAnd liars<\/p>\n<p>They were not gods<br \/>\nThey were far from perfect<br \/>\nThey were not loved by everyone<br \/>\nAnd they were not always my favorites either<\/p>\n<p>But they remain where I placed them<br \/>\nIn my personal pantheon<br \/>\nI remember the lessons they taught me<br \/>\nThe wisdom they shared<br \/>\nThe love they gave me<br \/>\nAnd that I gave them<\/p>\n<p>They remain the ones I whisper to<br \/>\nIn the darkest hours of the night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been ruminating On the idea of personal pantheons The people that we relied on Who helped us When we didn&#8217;t have anything Who advised us When we entirely fucked up Who loved us When we were at our worst My first was an&#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-52224","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\/52224","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=52224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52233,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52224\/revisions\/52233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}