{"id":65181,"date":"2020-06-27T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65181"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:05:45","slug":"defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/defeated\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5 &#8211; Defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do the snakes<br \/>\nKeep creeping in my rooms<br \/>\nEvery rain, every monsoon?<br \/>\nAnd why do I have to spend my life<br \/>\nSealing the gaps I did not make?<\/p>\n<p>Why does that window simply not fit<br \/>\nBack into its own frame any more?<br \/>\nJust &#8211; someone had broken it off?!<br \/>\nAnd it refuses to protect me any more?<\/p>\n<p>Why does that wall still keep<br \/>\nGetting damp, year after year?<br \/>\nStill get me cold, still get me shivers<br \/>\nEvery time I touch it?<\/p>\n<p>Why does the sunshine burn<br \/>\nEverytime? I just want to feel the warmth.<br \/>\nWhy does the snow bite<br \/>\nEverytime? I just want to feel the white.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let the past define you.<\/p>\n<p>So why does the past<br \/>\nKeep redefining itself<br \/>\nOver and over?<\/p>\n<p>How many mirrors should I cover?<br \/>\nHow many windows do I close?<br \/>\nHow many stabs? How long it takes?<br \/>\nHow many doors and how many snakes?<br \/>\nHow many times and how many hours?<br \/>\nHow many faces and how many failures?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do the snakes Keep creeping in my rooms Every rain, every monsoon? And why do I have to spend my life Sealing the gaps I did not make? Why does that window simply not fit Back into its own frame any more? Just &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65181","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\/1377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65207,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65181\/revisions\/65207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}