{"id":63913,"date":"2020-06-27T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63913"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:34:24","slug":"russian-doll-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/russian-doll-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"russian doll woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>born free, man builds his own traps<br \/>\nforges armor, steel, war: made to save us<br \/>\nfrom the evils they manifest into<br \/>\nbut <em>our<\/em> aches are innate, built-in<br \/>\ntrying to escape cages<br \/>\nthat we inherited<\/p>\n<p>and so on to the next place for us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the illusion of escape<br \/>\nventuring, still enclosed by calls<br \/>\nlured in with the promises<br \/>\nbeauty, power, love?<br \/>\nour eyes bat and yawn at these neon signs<br \/>\nand at the door, there\u2019s an entry fee.<br \/>\nwhy do we have to pay a penance<br \/>\nfor what they claim to offer?<\/p>\n<p>and so on to the next place for us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>oh our kaleidoscope eyes<br \/>\nreflecting bright colors of world<br \/>\ninto romanticized ornamentations<br \/>\nthat we already know<br \/>\nare just a couple of old, used<br \/>\ncrystals\u2013scraps from their fortresses<\/p>\n<p>and so on to the next place for us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>born free, man builds his own traps forges armor, steel, war: made to save us from the evils they manifest into but our aches are innate, built-in trying to escape cages that we inherited and so on to the next place for us&#8230; the illusion&#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-63913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63913","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=63913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63925,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63913\/revisions\/63925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}