{"id":7306,"date":"2015-06-13T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2015-06-13T10:48:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:48:21","slug":"retaining-wall-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/retaining-wall-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Retaining Wall (hour 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a simple man who’s easily hurt.<\/p>\n

I been stepped on ridiculed treated like dirt.<\/p>\n

I give all of me but it’s never enough, you all want more so I keep going as I huff and I puff.<\/p>\n

I want to be respected, is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n

Yet still im just a toilet to you that takes all your crap.<\/p>\n

With my hand forced, now I will build a wall out of my own instinct inside my flesh and bones.<\/p>\n

In it I will bury all the guilt pain and suffering, just try to throw stones.<\/p>\n

Inpenitrable by anyone’s opinion, anyone’s hate, anyone’s words with hateful tones.<\/p>\n

This retaining wall it is built solid like concrete and rebar, that reinforces it for this wall shall not come down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a simple man who’s easily hurt. I been stepped on ridiculed treated like dirt. I give all of me but it’s never enough, you all want more so I keep going as I huff and I puff. I want to be respected, is that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306","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\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7348,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}