{"id":91018,"date":"2021-06-26T16:05:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91018"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:30:53","slug":"hour-eight-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-eight-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Eight &#8211; Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Normal <\/strong><br \/>\nNormal, who throws going out to dinner<br \/>\naround like we never forgot<br \/>\nand asks,<em> how&#8217;s it going?<\/em><br \/>\nwho is ever changing<br \/>\nand wears different gear each season<br \/>\nwho sometimes is busy every hour<br \/>\nand sometimes has nothing to do but overeat<br \/>\nuntil we finally can&#8217;t seem to recognize her<br \/>\nwhose little eyes are clouded<br \/>\nand acts surprised that we don&#8217;t remember<br \/>\nwho used to go on day after day<br \/>\nis finished<br \/>\nis she a hug and a handshake<br \/>\nor is she a mask and hand sanitizer?<br \/>\nis she justice and mercy<br \/>\nor is she fear and anger?<br \/>\nNormal is hiding in the closet<br \/>\nand hasn&#8217;t talked to me in years<br \/>\nshe doesn&#8217;t live here now<br \/>\nwill she ever come out<br \/>\nor is her time passed?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Inspired by Prompt for Hour 7 and Sandra Cisnero&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalela.com\/day-1-abuelito-who-january-writing-challenge\/\">Abuelito Who<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normal Normal, who throws going out to dinner around like we never forgot and asks, how&#8217;s it going? who is ever changing and wears different gear each season who sometimes is busy every hour and sometimes has nothing to do but overeat until we finally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4390,154,4109,4286,4146,4402],"class_list":["post-91018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-normal","tag-hour-8","tag-mrsdkrebs","tag-poem-8","tag-poetrymarathon2021","tag-sandra-cisneros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91018","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\/3549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91018"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96419,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91018\/revisions\/96419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}