{"id":53949,"date":"2019-06-22T21:21:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53949"},"modified":"2019-06-23T20:54:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:54:04","slug":"questions-at-the-precipice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/questions-at-the-precipice\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions at the Precipice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a slow transition from living to dying?<br \/>\nOr does it happen instantaneously?<\/p>\n<p>When my feet stopped growing at thirteen<br \/>\nI realized I can wear those 7.5 size shoes forever.<br \/>\nDid that signal my march towards the grave?<\/p>\n<p>When I stopped growing a year after<br \/>\nI reached 5\u20195, the tallest I will ever be.<br \/>\nIs that when my body began to sink into the Earth?<\/p>\n<p>Or was it when the summer excitement<br \/>\nmellowed each year to weariness?<br \/>\nOr even earlier<\/p>\n<p>when my father stopped carrying me to bed from the car?<br \/>\nIs that where it begins?<br \/>\nEnds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a slow transition from living to dying? Or does it happen instantaneously? When my feet stopped growing at thirteen I realized I can wear those 7.5 size shoes forever. Did that signal my march towards the grave? When I stopped growing a year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53949","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58285,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53949\/revisions\/58285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}