{"id":55278,"date":"2019-06-23T01:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T05:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55278"},"modified":"2019-06-23T01:17:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T05:17:42","slug":"neon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/neon\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Board, shake your umbrella dry.<\/p>\n<p>Find a seat.<\/p>\n<p>Voices drown out the trickling rain.<\/p>\n<p>Streetlights illuminate the bus, casting shadows.<\/p>\n<p>Strangers squeeze together.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone wearing Hot Breath No. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Suffocating.<\/p>\n<p>Germs disperse like a smoke bomb, touching me.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t think about it, you&#8217;re fine.<\/p>\n<p>People get on and off, more germs.<\/p>\n<p>My mind wanders.<\/p>\n<p>The seat I sit on, who was here before me?<\/p>\n<p>Breathing becomes harder, my palms sweat.<\/p>\n<p>I rock back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>Let the bus move me.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing everything in triplicate.<\/p>\n<p>And then\u00a0<em>boom.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board, shake your umbrella dry. Find a seat. Voices drown out the trickling rain. Streetlights illuminate the bus, casting shadows. Strangers squeeze together. Everyone wearing Hot Breath No. 5. Suffocating. Germs disperse like a smoke bomb, touching me. Don&#8217;t think about it, you&#8217;re fine. People&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55278","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\/1204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55388,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55278\/revisions\/55388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}