{"id":56735,"date":"2019-06-23T05:16:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56735"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:16:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:16:03","slug":"mirror-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/mirror-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mirror<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I caught them watching me, saying I\u2019m slipping<\/p>\n<p>away, just like Aunt Brenda did, 50 years<\/p>\n<p>ago. Sick. I\u2019ll dig in the trash, grab scraps, torn<\/p>\n<p>paper that Mommy threw away. I dig past bones<\/p>\n<p>and grease and clutter of things left behind, to save<\/p>\n<p>what everyone sees as junk. <em>It\u2019s precious<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Should be left untouched. I know they wonder<\/p>\n<p>of what will become of me when I\u2019m old, but<\/p>\n<p>I have it under control. Things are okay. Not<\/p>\n<p>normal but still okay. Healthy. But we\u2019ll watch<\/p>\n<p>the clock hands tick and tick and tick away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirror &nbsp; I caught them watching me, saying I\u2019m slipping away, just like Aunt Brenda did, 50 years ago. Sick. I\u2019ll dig in the trash, grab scraps, torn paper that Mommy threw away. I dig past bones and grease and clutter of things left behind,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56735","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56739,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56735\/revisions\/56739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}