{"id":87648,"date":"2021-06-26T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87648"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:19:14","slug":"struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/struggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling (prompt 1) ~<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My beloved struggles hourly, his life<\/p>\n<p>parsed laboured breath by laboured breath.<\/p>\n<p>I listen\/don\u2019t listen, struggling myself<\/p>\n<p>wondering how long how long how long<\/p>\n<p>Like a heartbeat I hear it, the refrain:<\/p>\n<p><em>how long \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 how long\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 how long<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3 a.m., and I listen, struggling<\/p>\n<p>to separate the generator\u2019s shush of air<\/p>\n<p><em>in out\u00a0 in out\u00a0 in out<\/em><\/p>\n<p>from his own knife edge breath<\/p>\n<p>that oh so very slowly severs<\/p>\n<p>all these years of threads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling (prompt 1) ~ &nbsp; My beloved struggles hourly, his life parsed laboured breath by laboured breath. I listen\/don\u2019t listen, struggling myself wondering how long how long how long Like a heartbeat I hear it, the refrain: how long \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 how long\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 how long 3&#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":[1226,4126,4127],"class_list":["post-87648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-endings","tag-prompt-one","tag-struggle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87648","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=87648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87680,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87648\/revisions\/87680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}