{"id":92229,"date":"2021-06-26T14:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92229"},"modified":"2021-06-26T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:28:06","slug":"losing-god-at-dillards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/losing-god-at-dillards\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing God at Dillard&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Losing God at Dillard\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I lost God<\/p>\n<p>in a bathroom stall<\/p>\n<p>at Dillard\u2019s Department Store.<\/p>\n<p>Knew he was gone,<\/p>\n<p>felt his absence in the<\/p>\n<p>empty echo of faux marble.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arrogant, unmasked people<\/p>\n<p>shuffling around all post-Covid,<\/p>\n<p>not all vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Hollow laughter, pod people<\/p>\n<p>buying stuff again,<\/p>\n<p>gobbling food court fare,<\/p>\n<p>like it never happened,<\/p>\n<p>though it\u2019s still going on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>God must have left<\/p>\n<p>the mall years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I was just too busy or<\/p>\n<p>self-involved to notice.<\/p>\n<p>I bought boba tea,<\/p>\n<p>sipped it as I left to<\/p>\n<p>look for God at<\/p>\n<p>the grocery store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Losing God at Dillard\u2019s &nbsp; I lost God in a bathroom stall at Dillard\u2019s Department Store. Knew he was gone, felt his absence in the empty echo of faux marble. &nbsp; Arrogant, unmasked people shuffling around all post-Covid, not all vaccinated. Hollow laughter, pod people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92229","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92257,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92229\/revisions\/92257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}