{"id":65270,"date":"2020-06-27T14:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65270"},"modified":"2020-06-27T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:22:31","slug":"poem-6-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-6-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take my burden cleansed fresh in the stream<br \/>\nI clothe the body in a scented cloth<br \/>\nI hide the stench and scars upon the flesh.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath the gloves lay broken dirty nails<br \/>\nThe fingertips now purple, curved tight.<\/p>\n<p>Face brown and yellow, bruised about the side.<br \/>\nCuts and scratches.  Fresh and old. Crevice.  Cracks.<\/p>\n<p>To hide the damage I can bare one eye.<br \/>\nI can show no further skin or remenant.<\/p>\n<p>To look at scars is seeing creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take my burden cleansed fresh in the stream I clothe the body in a scented cloth I hide the stench and scars upon the flesh. Beneath the gloves lay broken dirty nails The fingertips now purple, curved tight. Face brown and yellow, bruised about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65270","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\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66329,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65270\/revisions\/66329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}