{"id":91934,"date":"2021-06-26T14:35:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91934"},"modified":"2021-06-26T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:35:23","slug":"6-the-city-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/6-the-city-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"#6- The City and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold and warm at the same time,<\/p>\n<p>My blankets heating the ice in me,<\/p>\n<p>Seeing only the black behind my eyes,<\/p>\n<p>As I pull the hoodie closer to me.<\/p>\n<p>The car my little home,<\/p>\n<p>Like a tortoise carrying my home around,<\/p>\n<p>The comfort of it soothing me,<\/p>\n<p>Like a warm bear hug.<\/p>\n<p>My sleeve stretched to my palm,<\/p>\n<p>I wipe the glass before me,<\/p>\n<p>I lie back down in my cocoon,<\/p>\n<p>My eyes unfocused on the scene before me.<\/p>\n<p>The whole city in front of me,<\/p>\n<p>Whispered in my ear conspiratorially,<\/p>\n<p>Unravelling itself in front of me,<\/p>\n<p>Telling me all of its secrets.<\/p>\n<p>The thermos in my hand,<\/p>\n<p>As I sip my hot chocolate,<\/p>\n<p>I whisper back to the city,<\/p>\n<p>Telling it all my secrets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>~thryaksha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold and warm at the same time, My blankets heating the ice in me, Seeing only the black behind my eyes, As I pull the hoodie closer to me. The car my little home, Like a tortoise carrying my home around, The comfort of it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2852,"featured_media":92252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[2620,4363,1488,15,10,4364,4365],"class_list":["post-91934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-comfort","tag-car","tag-city","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-tour","tag-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91934","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\/2852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92367,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91934\/revisions\/92367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}