{"id":72191,"date":"2020-06-27T22:28:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72191"},"modified":"2020-07-05T22:19:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T02:19:34","slug":"feral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/feral\/","title":{"rendered":"Feral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a child I would consider<br \/>\nTaking walks around the block at night<br \/>\nI looked out at the sleeping world<br \/>\nand always returned to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I am considering<br \/>\nTaking walks in the woods forever<br \/>\nThe reverse wolf-child<br \/>\nRaised by people, living feral<br \/>\nThe woods don&#8217;t care about grades<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t need money or fashion<br \/>\nSocial skills a useless commodity<br \/>\nAmbition only to survive <\/p>\n<p>But nature does not require nothing<br \/>\nIt demands physical strength<br \/>\nKnowledge on foods and shelter<br \/>\nIt may request my willingness to kill.<br \/>\nTo snuff out a life<br \/>\nMerely to maintain my own. <\/p>\n<p>And I shake the leaves from my mane,<br \/>\nSmooth it back into a ponytail.<br \/>\nI rinse my paws of dirt<br \/>\nTrim my claws back to neat nails<br \/>\nStraighten my ragged clothes<br \/>\nand crouched limbs<br \/>\nBack to civilized.<br \/>\nTell nature no thank you. <\/p>\n<p>Return to my world of people<br \/>\nWhere medicines assure my wellness<br \/>\nand houses my comfort<br \/>\nWhere life can coexist<br \/>\nJust a little easier<br \/>\nand my family is waiting<br \/>\nto welcome home their girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child I would consider Taking walks around the block at night I looked out at the sleeping world and always returned to bed. Now, I am considering Taking walks in the woods forever The reverse wolf-child Raised by people, living feral The woods&#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-72191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72191","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=72191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78073,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72191\/revisions\/78073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}