{"id":67467,"date":"2020-06-27T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67467"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:02:33","slug":"symbols-or-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/symbols-or-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbols or signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reaching out to the far,<br \/>\nsearching secret combinations must surly<br \/>\nunlock some concealed affections,<br \/>\nyet scorn springs from unending upturned wells,<br \/>\nHuman legs destructive in bird nest incubator,<br \/>\nWriting intended perpetually for all time,<br \/>\nnow washed by each dismissive scroll.<br \/>\nMuted against those adored with cardiac hieroglyphics.<br \/>\nAnother bother, conveyor belt communication,<br \/>\nWords of devotion dashed by a short curt retort,<br \/>\nCavernous ventricles fail at notification denied,<br \/>\nIranian execution style slow strangling replies,<br \/>\nHours dangling &#8211; callous in neglects disdain.<br \/>\nWords only on demand, that toy should remain boxed.<br \/>\nCatch those two little birds my love,<br \/>\nOnly write to show your dedication to me,<br \/>\n&amp; the only dedication I demand is silence.<br \/>\nPeering squints yet lines still empty,<br \/>\nChided for basking that shown in plain sight.<br \/>\nAccept and enjoy a game as predestined loser,<br \/>\nmark away cultivating symbolic obscurity in safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaching out to the far, searching secret combinations must surly unlock some concealed affections, yet scorn springs from unending upturned wells, Human legs destructive in bird nest incubator, Writing intended perpetually for all time, now washed by each dismissive scroll. Muted against those adored with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67467","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\/1431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68560,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67467\/revisions\/68560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}