{"id":53487,"date":"2019-06-22T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53487"},"modified":"2019-06-22T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:22:51","slug":"one-to-grow-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/one-to-grow-on\/","title":{"rendered":"One to Grow On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t drown out that rhythm of venom, that cadence of wrath,<br \/>\nand the accretion of thriving muck at the bottom hungers, always.<\/p>\n<p>A long breath hisses inward between teeth clenched without volition:<\/p>\n<p>All life is sacred, and none is more sacred than our own,<br \/>\nthe audience must needs think of me as pure and merciful;<br \/>\nA simple, clear song.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of an asteroid or pyroclasm,<br \/>\nnature will bury this field of joys<\/p>\n<p>But know I&#8217;m filled with wonder,<br \/>\nwhen shove comes to push.<\/p>\n<p>In eyes deep as the well of souls,<br \/>\nthe beauty of it is, you can be whatever you want!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t drown out that rhythm of venom, that cadence of wrath, and the accretion of thriving muck at the bottom hungers, always. A long breath hisses inward between teeth clenched without volition: All life is sacred, and none is more sacred than our own,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53487","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\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53981,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53487\/revisions\/53981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}