{"id":6913,"date":"2015-06-13T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:13:00","slug":"poem-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can glimpse the flaws in your shield.<br \/>\nWhere the smallest breeze can slip through,<br \/>\nor where the flame brightest,<br \/>\nand the smooth impermeable armor can be torn away.<\/p>\n<p>I can only imagine how easily you can see through me.<br \/>\nMy transparency could be seen by a blind man.<br \/>\nMy emotions run riot over every inch of my face,<br \/>\nand the twitches of my hands can give out more messages than a master of ASL.<br \/>\nOpen book, would be an understatement. Of the highest degree.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me, if I can see your chinks so easily,<br \/>\nand if I am the clearest mirror available,<br \/>\nis that why we&#8217;re all blinded?<br \/>\nSo many reflections, warring across our continents.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s no wonder we&#8217;re all confused.<br \/>\nWhy would we trust something that is so bright and obvious?<br \/>\nShining like beacons on roaming monoliths,<br \/>\nor giant neon arrows.<br \/>\nThe more obvious an explanation,<br \/>\nthe stronger we resist its truthfulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can glimpse the flaws in your shield. Where the smallest breeze can slip through, or where the flame brightest, and the smooth impermeable armor can be torn away. I can only imagine how easily you can see through me. My transparency could be seen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7045,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}