{"id":8705,"date":"2015-06-13T14:05:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8705"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:33:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:33:35","slug":"alms-for-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/alms-for-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Alms For The Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You find it funny<br \/>\nwhen you swing hammers<br \/>\nwith a laugh and a smile.<\/p>\n<p>Catching your sibling\u2019s eye;<br \/>\nnot to be alone in your odious offerings.<\/p>\n<p>You find it funny<br \/>\nwhen you see me shrink &#8211;<br \/>\nhanding \u2018round your generational trauma<br \/>\nlike alms for the poor.<\/p>\n<p>Like we all should have what you\u2019re having\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But you don\u2019t find it funny<br \/>\nwhen you meet my eyes \u2013<br \/>\nand the laughter of us all paints<br \/>\na paltry picture of love<br \/>\nwrapped up in hurtful hand-me-downs.<\/p>\n<p>You know it\u2019s been vicious.<br \/>\nYou know I\u2019m hurt.<\/p>\n<p>But really, you\u2019re wondering,<br \/>\nif this will be the time<br \/>\nI finally stand up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You find it funny when you swing hammers with a laugh and a smile. Catching your sibling\u2019s eye; not to be alone in your odious offerings. You find it funny when you see me shrink &#8211; handing \u2018round your generational trauma like alms for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8705","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\/8705","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\/634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8722,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions\/8722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}