{"id":55921,"date":"2019-06-23T02:55:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55921"},"modified":"2019-06-23T02:55:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:55:55","slug":"hour-twenty-ode-gender-neutral-bathrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-twenty-ode-gender-neutral-bathrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour twenty: Ode: gender neutral bathrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have spent my life tapping the bricks<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">between the two bathrooms, waiting <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for some magical world to reveal itself. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have avoided eye contact in the mirror<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with myself &amp; others, taken off my pronoun<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">buttons before going into the bathroom. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bless this room of requirement turned <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mainstream, this place where I am no <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">different than anyone else, just a person <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">at a coffeeshop not being asked to choose <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">between two doors that will never describe me. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent my life tapping the bricks between the two bathrooms, waiting for some magical world to reveal itself. \u00a0 I have avoided eye contact in the mirror with myself &amp; others, taken off my pronoun buttons before going into the bathroom. \u00a0 Bless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55921","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\/55921","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\/1091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55922,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55921\/revisions\/55922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}