{"id":87461,"date":"2021-06-26T09:21:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87461"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:43:31","slug":"quandary-1-of-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/quandary-1-of-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Quandary &#8211; 1 of 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>all I can say is that<br \/>\ncruelty was leaking out of you<br \/>\nbut I had no empty buckets<br \/>\nwithin arms\u2019 reach so I<br \/>\nhad to swallow all of it<br \/>\nmouth agape, taking in<br \/>\nhundreds of ounces of<br \/>\nsuch loathsome stuff<br \/>\nturning myself inside out<br \/>\nto scrub at intervals<br \/>\nhoping I could sleep<br \/>\nunderneath your ceiling<br \/>\nwithout it caving in<br \/>\nwaking up with<br \/>\npolystyrene between my teeth<br \/>\nyour mistake was believing<br \/>\nthat I was the one<br \/>\nmaking the mess<br \/>\nsimply because I could not<br \/>\nhouse all of it<br \/>\nyou were spitting so much<br \/>\ncontempt<br \/>\nand I met my body\u2019s limits<br \/>\nso by Sunday, I was swollen<br \/>\nwith your nonsense and<br \/>\nI had to purge my hope<br \/>\nto make room for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>all I can say is that cruelty was leaking out of you but I had no empty buckets within arms\u2019 reach so I had to swallow all of it mouth agape, taking in hundreds of ounces of such loathsome stuff turning myself inside out to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87461","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89006,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87461\/revisions\/89006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}