{"id":92017,"date":"2021-06-26T14:47:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92017"},"modified":"2021-06-26T14:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:47:33","slug":"doors-of-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/doors-of-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Doors of Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My eyes play tricks on me more often than they used to. Let&#8217;s get real &#8212; it&#8217;s probably<br \/>\nmy brain playing the trickster, not my doing-the-best-they-can peepers. Is this poetry<br \/>\nprompt a mailbox? I asked my husband, warming up to the possibility of writing that<br \/>\nTrump\/DeJoy diatribe that wells up most days, when I see the paucity of contents in<br \/>\nour locking mailbox. No, the image is the view from a back seat. I guess I&#8217;m getting<br \/>\npositive and negative space confused. The &#8216;Golden Gate Bridge in fog&#8217; image I thought<br \/>\nwas painted on metal is the reality outside the metal car box. I could dredge up some<br \/>\nold memories about crossing that bridge, but I&#8217;ll save them for the next time I come to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My eyes play tricks on me more often than they used to. Let&#8217;s get real &#8212; it&#8217;s probably my brain playing the trickster, not my doing-the-best-they-can peepers. Is this poetry prompt a mailbox? I asked my husband, warming up to the possibility of writing that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92017","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\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92017"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92506,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92017\/revisions\/92506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}