{"id":8596,"date":"2015-06-13T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8596"},"modified":"2015-07-28T19:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T23:12:14","slug":"poem-5-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-5-underwater\/","title":{"rendered":"poem #5 underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>what the shell said<\/p>\n<p>when the water claimed me<br \/>\ntook my salt &amp; copper body<br \/>\ndeep into its bluegreen throat<br \/>\nand swallowed me whole<br \/>\nI thought of my mother<br \/>\nhow her tears would taste<br \/>\nof this same saltwater<br \/>\nhow she would wail<br \/>\nlike the rushing sound<br \/>\nof tidal surge around me<\/p>\n<p>warmed by the sun<br \/>\nI could not see beneath<br \/>\nthe ocean\u2019s surface<br \/>\nwater the colour of the sky<br \/>\nlifted me high<br \/>\nstill wrapped in water<br \/>\nslammed me into ocean floor<br \/>\nand in my ears my mother<br \/>\na whisper in a shell<br \/>\ncalling me home<\/p>\n<p>some visceral fear<br \/>\ntore from me<br \/>\nripped by the tide<br \/>\nsank into the sand<br \/>\nand I spread my arms like wings<br \/>\nsoaring underwater<br \/>\ninto rescue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what the shell said when the water claimed me took my salt &amp; copper body deep into its bluegreen throat and swallowed me whole I thought of my mother how her tears would taste of this same saltwater how she would wail like the rushing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15661,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions\/15661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}