{"id":69571,"date":"2020-06-27T18:32:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69571"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:44:19","slug":"10-shadow-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/10-shadow-self\/","title":{"rendered":"#10. Shadow Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m being followed by a shadow of myself<br \/>\n(embrace your shadow self, all the self help books decry)<br \/>\nCan I sew my shadow self back on<br \/>\nwith a needle and thread?<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what Wendy did to Peter Pan.<br \/>\nWhen all my illusions and delusions fade away<br \/>\nWhat is left?<br \/>\nBereft of fantasy,<br \/>\nthe bare bones of truth<br \/>\nilluminate<br \/>\nreality.<br \/>\nSanctity.<br \/>\nSerenity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m being followed by a shadow of myself (embrace your shadow self, all the self help books decry) Can I sew my shadow self back on with a needle and thread? That\u2019s what Wendy did to Peter Pan. When all my illusions and delusions fade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571","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\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69737,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571\/revisions\/69737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}