{"id":8782,"date":"2015-06-13T14:14:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8782"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:14:21","slug":"addiction-prison-624","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/addiction-prison-624\/","title":{"rendered":"Addiction Prison &#8211; 6\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sober life is my Albatross,<\/p>\n<p>heavy as a cross,<\/p>\n<p>Bending my neck into knots.<\/p>\n<p>Around me, I smell the nauseating scent of<\/p>\n<p>alcohol and \u00a0weed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am too pure to be here<\/p>\n<p>Trapped in this addiction prison<\/p>\n<p>The walls all tallied with excuses like their arms with track marks and razor scars<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not always so bad<\/p>\n<p>There are the innocent drunks<\/p>\n<p>Who frequent a Saturday party. But still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am unfair here.<\/p>\n<p>The scales never tipping in my favor<\/p>\n<p>If this is not sickness<\/p>\n<p>What the hell is it?<\/p>\n<p>I hear the high flies buzzing on their potential corpses<\/p>\n<p>I rot slower<\/p>\n<p>because I rot sober &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Inside my inescapable \u00a0cell<\/p>\n<p>Of everyone else&#8217;s escapes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>@ angel rosen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sober life is my Albatross, heavy as a cross, Bending my neck into knots. Around me, I smell the nauseating scent of alcohol and \u00a0weed&#8230; I am too pure to be here Trapped in this addiction prison The walls all tallied with excuses like&#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":[10],"class_list":["post-8782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782","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=8782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8791,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions\/8791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}