{"id":68348,"date":"2020-06-27T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68348"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:47:27","slug":"sutures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/sutures\/","title":{"rendered":"Sutures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sutures<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes,<br \/>\nmy head fills<br \/>\nwith anger, festers<br \/>\ntoxic wounds, scars<br \/>\nscab a paralyzing fear;<br \/>\nI feel like my inner seams<br \/>\nare ripping apart.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when<br \/>\nI take pen to paper<br \/>\nallow myself to bleed<br \/>\nonto the page, let it seep<br \/>\ninto creases to form words<br \/>\nand the poetry stitches me up<br \/>\nhelps me heal.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 27, 2020<br \/>\nHour 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sutures Sometimes, my head fills with anger, festers toxic wounds, scars scab a paralyzing fear; I feel like my inner seams are ripping apart. That\u2019s when I take pen to paper allow myself to bleed onto the page, let it seep into creases to form&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68348","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68359,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68348\/revisions\/68359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}