{"id":71172,"date":"2020-06-27T20:37:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71172"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:43:11","slug":"hour-11-the-masks-we-wear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-11-the-masks-we-wear\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 11: The Masks We Wear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar &#8220;We Wear the Mask&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Masks We Wear<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">veil obscures me from the eyes of others, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">false confidence under strained smiles masks my desires for belonging, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a pretense of confidence, swathed in fine thread<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is ardent desire to end what unravels inside me, and to stop<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what &#8212; shifting sand, which keeps me from discovering solid ground <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">where I can stand<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">we are not \u201cwe\u201d, I am only \u201cone\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and I wear a mask because I must<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar &#8220;We Wear the Mask&#8221; The Masks We Wear &nbsp; A veil obscures me from the eyes of others, false confidence under strained smiles masks my desires for belonging, a pretense of confidence, swathed in fine thread is ardent desire to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71172","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\/1194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77853,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71172\/revisions\/77853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}