{"id":91681,"date":"2021-06-26T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91681"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:26:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:26:26","slug":"untitled-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/untitled-17\/","title":{"rendered":"untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just imagine reacting, almost daily, to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A few steps out of the door<br \/>\nand twilight<br \/>\nYou run into a wall but turn&#8230; left and stumble forward<br \/>\nInto dim light. Because it&#8217;s light.<br \/>\nKind of<br \/>\nAnd it gets comfortable for\u2026<br \/>\nA block or a mile or a week<br \/>\nAnd you have a smile and water<br \/>\nWhen the goddamned ground stars buckling<br \/>\nAnd it\u2019s pouring<br \/>\nwith vultures circling<br \/>\nAnd a childhood bully robs your house and<br \/>\nSells all of your shit for drugs<br \/>\nBut you keep walking as if you<br \/>\nwill get all of your shit back<br \/>\n(You will NEVER get any of your shit back)<br \/>\nAnd there is a corner and another dim mile<br \/>\nAnd a hole in your shoe<br \/>\nAnd you are late for\u2026what the fuck ever<\/p>\n<p>This is the emotional absurdity<br \/>\nOf living with racism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just imagine reacting, almost daily, to\u2026 A few steps out of the door and twilight You run into a wall but turn&#8230; left and stumble forward Into dim light. Because it&#8217;s light. Kind of And it gets comfortable for\u2026 A block or a mile or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91681","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\/1816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91694,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91681\/revisions\/91694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}