{"id":6669,"date":"2015-06-13T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6669"},"modified":"2015-06-13T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:38:01","slug":"poem-written-under-water-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-written-under-water-124\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem Written Under Water (#1\/24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Poem Written Underwater<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Strange to be swimming in my favorite blue dress<br \/>\nthe skirt billowing slowly around me<br \/>\nan odd fish to say the least<\/p>\n<p>Deep in the liquid atmosphere and breathing well<br \/>\nno struggling for the old oxygen<br \/>\nthat used to keep me <\/p>\n<p>Death, I have feared lifelong my own drowning<br \/>\nand I wonder now why so much<br \/>\nnow new inhaling preserves me<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll not walk on dirty sand this afternoon, laughing<br \/>\nmirrored back in a lover\u2019s eyes<br \/>\nMy reflection extinguished<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not gulping and crying for rescuing hands<br \/>\nThey reach, I push away, not to be reached<br \/>\nI\u2019m choosing the deep this time <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem Written Underwater Strange to be swimming in my favorite blue dress the skirt billowing slowly around me an odd fish to say the least Deep in the liquid atmosphere and breathing well no struggling for the old oxygen that used to keep me Death,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669","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\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6682,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions\/6682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}