{"id":73928,"date":"2020-06-28T02:21:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73928"},"modified":"2020-06-28T02:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:21:15","slug":"hands-in-my-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hands-in-my-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"hands in my hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wake up<br \/>\nI ruffle my hair<br \/>\nIt has been growing out<br \/>\nSince my last hair cut<br \/>\nIn late January<\/p>\n<p>I stand<br \/>\nI ruffle my hair<br \/>\nSleeping has caused it<br \/>\nTo stick out at weird angles<br \/>\nAnd resemble Beakman\u2019s doo<\/p>\n<p>I put my bagel in the toaster oven<br \/>\nI ruffle my hair<br \/>\nWhile waiting for my bagel to toast<br \/>\nAnd sigh in impatience<br \/>\nAnd hunger<\/p>\n<p>I sit down at my tablet<br \/>\nI ruffle my hair<br \/>\nTrying to shake the sleep from my brain<br \/>\nRemember what it is I need to do today<br \/>\nAnd ease sensory needs<\/p>\n<p>I lean over my work<br \/>\nBoth hands ruffle my hair<br \/>\nIn times of stress<br \/>\nMy fingers rub through my mane<br \/>\nTrying to will my brain into calm<\/p>\n<p>I sit in my recliner<br \/>\nI ruffle my hair slowly<br \/>\nWith one hand<br \/>\nAt last<br \/>\nMy brain can rest<\/p>\n<p>I turn out the lights<br \/>\nI ruffle my hair<br \/>\nLay down on the pillows<br \/>\nBurrow into the covers<br \/>\nAnd finally fall asleep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wake up I ruffle my hair It has been growing out Since my last hair cut In late January I stand I ruffle my hair Sleeping has caused it To stick out at weird angles And resemble Beakman\u2019s doo I put my bagel in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73928","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73932,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73928\/revisions\/73932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}