{"id":71021,"date":"2020-06-27T20:29:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71021"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:29:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:29:20","slug":"hour-12-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-12-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the verge of<br \/>\nLosing it.<br \/>\nTears, angry ones,<br \/>\nFace in the palms,<br \/>\nSweating through my glasses<br \/>\nAnd back into my eyes<\/p>\n<p>I could not explode<br \/>\nHere&#8230;<br \/>\nI could not let myself<br \/>\nDetonate in the house.<br \/>\nIn the sanctuary.<br \/>\nIn the calm space.<\/p>\n<p>But the calm space is exactly where<br \/>\nThe pain pulses<br \/>\nThrough the pipes<br \/>\nAnd wires.<\/p>\n<p>So I have to hide it again.<br \/>\nTake a breath and wait <\/p>\n<p>Because I know it will start over<\/p>\n<p>It always does<br \/>\nBecause meltdowns only stop<br \/>\nWhen the brain ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the verge of Losing it. Tears, angry ones, Face in the palms, Sweating through my glasses And back into my eyes I could not explode Here&#8230; I could not let myself Detonate in the house. In the sanctuary. In the calm space&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71021","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\/1196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71071,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71021\/revisions\/71071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}