{"id":75939,"date":"2020-06-28T07:18:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75939"},"modified":"2020-06-28T07:18:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:18:44","slug":"already-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/already-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Already Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already Human<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I need you to be<\/p>\n<p>something you\u2019re not,<\/p>\n<p>someone who already<\/p>\n<p>is, no instruction<\/p>\n<p>manual needed<\/p>\n<p>to operate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Someone who knows<\/p>\n<p>what to do, how to act,<\/p>\n<p>what it means to be<\/p>\n<p>a human, fully<\/p>\n<p>formed, ready to love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I kiss him I know<\/p>\n<p>that you\u2019ll never be<\/p>\n<p>who I need, but I still<\/p>\n<p>dream of an us, not<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>consumed by misfunction,<\/p>\n<p>an us bursting, being<\/p>\n<p>who we need. I\u2019ll wait,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>though, for you to be,<\/p>\n<p>to say my name and know<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>what it means to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already Human &nbsp; I need you to be something you\u2019re not, someone who already is, no instruction manual needed to operate. &nbsp; Someone who knows what to do, how to act, what it means to be a human, fully formed, ready to love. &nbsp; When&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75939","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75949,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75939\/revisions\/75949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}