{"id":71665,"date":"2020-06-27T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71665"},"modified":"2020-07-15T21:07:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:07:24","slug":"shampoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/shampoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Shampoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my arms used to get tired<br \/>\nstraining up to wash my hair<br \/>\nbut as I grew up<br \/>\nmy arms got stronger<br \/>\nlearned how to massage and scrub<br \/>\nlengthy golden locks <\/p>\n<p>long hair was itchy<br \/>\nhot and frizzy and tangled<br \/>\nand a good cause was asking<br \/>\njust shave it all off<br \/>\nmy first shower after<br \/>\nI reached up to undo a ponytail<br \/>\nand (not) to my surprise found<br \/>\nfuzzy bald head <\/p>\n<p>buzzed hair meant more washing<br \/>\nbut simple daily do&#8217;s<br \/>\nit grew out eventually<br \/>\nlong curls again, but<br \/>\nI was to hold a Dig Pink<br \/>\nI visited a trusted friend<br \/>\nshe was all too happy to give me<br \/>\nneon pink hair<\/p>\n<p>the pink was amazing<br \/>\nbut tinted white shirts<br \/>\nand no matter how i washed<br \/>\nalways ran in the shower<br \/>\nit faded a bit, but refused to leave<br \/>\nso it got a short summer chop<br \/>\nleaving behind only<br \/>\nlittle blond bob<\/p>\n<p>my bob has grown out<br \/>\nit tickles, tangles again<br \/>\nends still too-light blond<br \/>\nfrom failing to dye out the pink<br \/>\nwith natural blond, about halfway down<br \/>\nI ponder as I rinse out the bubbles<br \/>\nwhat comes next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my arms used to get tired straining up to wash my hair but as I grew up my arms got stronger learned how to massage and scrub lengthy golden locks long hair was itchy hot and frizzy and tangled and a good cause was asking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71665","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78641,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71665\/revisions\/78641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}