{"id":72597,"date":"2020-06-27T23:21:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72597"},"modified":"2020-06-27T23:21:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:21:18","slug":"writhing-on-rob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/writhing-on-rob\/","title":{"rendered":"Writhing on Rob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was 16,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were coming home from Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Six weeks of milk from the cow on the corner,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basketball with cute boys,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And a Holocaust camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a long plane ride home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I sat on my best friend\u2019s lap,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And writhed on him,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For 10 delightful minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was the wrong thing to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The man next to us must have known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No one said a word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When we got home, I dated his best friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was our first relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last time he saw me, I was all grown up and he left me waiting in a car outside his house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was freezing. Snow was on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He had a girlfriend. She wasn\u2019t home but would be jealous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I let myself in and stuffed my used nylons in the bathroom waste basket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Hour 15, Prompt 15<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was 16,\u00a0 We were coming home from Germany. Six weeks of milk from the cow on the corner, Basketball with cute boys,\u00a0 And a Holocaust camp. &nbsp; It was a long plane ride home. I sat on my best friend\u2019s lap, And writhed on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[250,902,3110],"class_list":["post-72597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour-15","tag-prompt-15","tag-prompt15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72597","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\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72613,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72597\/revisions\/72613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}