{"id":92426,"date":"2021-06-26T14:38:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92426"},"modified":"2021-07-16T01:11:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T05:11:28","slug":"my-mothers-vice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/my-mothers-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mother&#8217;s Vice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Mother\u2019s Vice<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>she won\u2019t say much except she liked tobacco<\/p>\n<p>its calming effect on her nerves<\/p>\n<p>maybe she once imagined herself<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Hepburn, cigarette in hand<\/p>\n<p>accoutrement for deflection<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>parochial school carpool queen, cigarette hangs<\/p>\n<p>from her lips, one arm expertly steers<\/p>\n<p>the other swats noisy uniformed kids<\/p>\n<p>crammed in a container of school sweat<\/p>\n<p>cured by suburban menthol<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>when we were old enough to talk back<\/p>\n<p>we shamed her habit, badgered this<\/p>\n<p>choice need desire to smoke<\/p>\n<p>a felon then surfaced, hiding her vice<\/p>\n<p>stomped out evidence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>patio of solace, snuffing a dying butt, she falls<\/p>\n<p>a dislocated hip forces intervention<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a thirty year nonsmoker, she still tastes<\/p>\n<p>pleasure, rush of nicotine washing<\/p>\n<p>her brain, softening daily discomfort, details<\/p>\n<p>(reminds me of my own numbing vices)<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013pride punishes another generation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 26, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Mother\u2019s Vice &nbsp; she won\u2019t say much except she liked tobacco its calming effect on her nerves maybe she once imagined herself Katherine Hepburn, cigarette in hand accoutrement for deflection &nbsp; parochial school carpool queen, cigarette hangs from her lips, one arm expertly steers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92426","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\/3467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92426"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104421,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92426\/revisions\/104421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}