{"id":57038,"date":"2019-06-23T06:14:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57038"},"modified":"2019-06-23T06:14:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:14:22","slug":"heart-under-stone-hour-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/heart-under-stone-hour-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Under Stone (Hour 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The swell of my heart is a pale fragility<br \/>\npassing for life found quiet<br \/>\nbeneath a gently nestled river stone.<br \/>\nAccompanied by my subterranean neighbors<br \/>\ninfected with less than aesthetic features:<br \/>\nspineless, many-legged, permeable skin.<br \/>\nLowly inhabitants to keep<br \/>\nmy lonely heart company.<\/p>\n<p>How dare she lift that stone,<br \/>\nso perfectly were we<br \/>\nin the mud and wet earth,<br \/>\nI, my heart, the worms, and the dirt.<\/p>\n<p>She, bringing sunshine and oxygen<br \/>\nmaking my woodlice friends scramble for cover.<br \/>\nAnd me, stumbling blindsided by her light,<br \/>\nwith an idiot&#8217;s stare,<br \/>\ntoo ignorant to follow my friends,<br \/>\ntoo dumb to know when to run.<br \/>\nBaffled by her strange glow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The swell of my heart is a pale fragility passing for life found quiet beneath a gently nestled river stone. Accompanied by my subterranean neighbors infected with less than aesthetic features: spineless, many-legged, permeable skin. Lowly inhabitants to keep my lonely heart company. How dare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57038","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57045,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57038\/revisions\/57045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}