{"id":69076,"date":"2020-06-27T17:47:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69076"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:47:23","slug":"lava-is-1-2-marathon-hour-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/lava-is-1-2-marathon-hour-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lava is (1\/2 Marathon, Hour Nine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lava is<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boiling in my spirit under my skin<br \/>\nI am hot to the touch<br \/>\nFissures burst from me sporadically<br \/>\nSteam rising off of me at all times<\/p>\n<p>I do not know when I will erupt<\/p>\n<p>One more wrong word<br \/>\nOne last questioning of my feelings<br \/>\nOne new attempt to invalidate<\/p>\n<p>Lava everywhere killing everything in its path<\/p>\n<p>The relief to let it flow freely<br \/>\nThe remorse burned away<br \/>\nIt is brutalizing on the inside<br \/>\nIt destroys anything on the outside<\/p>\n<p>But it crusts over<br \/>\nSlowly<br \/>\nIt takes a long time to cool<\/p>\n<p>Now there is ash<br \/>\nOver everything<br \/>\nLungs pulling deeply<br \/>\nNo fresh air<\/p>\n<p>Never-ending threat<br \/>\nWill I die because now I cannot breathe<\/p>\n<p>How long until something new<br \/>\nGrows from this magma<br \/>\nIt will<br \/>\nBut how long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lava is Boiling in my spirit under my skin I am hot to the touch Fissures burst from me sporadically Steam rising off of me at all times I do not know when I will erupt One more wrong word One last questioning of my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69076","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\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69101,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69076\/revisions\/69101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}