{"id":9259,"date":"2015-06-13T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9259"},"modified":"2015-06-15T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T17:46:42","slug":"8-have-you-seen-my-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/8-have-you-seen-my-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"#8 &#8211; Have you seen my boxes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sometimes i wonder if anyone has actually seen me<br \/>\ni know with obvious senses they have<br \/>\nwhether through sight, smell, taste or touch<br \/>\nbut have they SEEN me<br \/>\nthe parts that sometimes aren&#8217;t what they appear<br \/>\nthe parts they have to engage<br \/>\nlook for<br \/>\ndust off<br \/>\nuncover<br \/>\nto clear cobwebs from<br \/>\nthat no one has looked for in a long while<br \/>\npossibly ever<br \/>\nthe very best parts of me that have been packed away<br \/>\nwaiting<br \/>\nin the attic way up high &amp; the basement down below<br \/>\nwaiting to be discovered<br \/>\nthey were packed away long ago when they kept getting forgotten<br \/>\nwhen people stopped looking for them<br \/>\nif they even ever did before giving up if it became a challenge to look harder<br \/>\nthe actual search required too much effort<br \/>\nkeeping only what pieces out that were needed or beneficial<br \/>\nthe rest got stashed<br \/>\nthe best things<br \/>\nthe most valuable<br \/>\nthe ones that got overshadowed<br \/>\nthat went unused<br \/>\nthe best parts<br \/>\nthey got put in boxes, on shelves, behind closet doors &amp; inside cabinets<br \/>\nstored away in hopes that one day they would be found or needed<br \/>\nwhen i ask if anyone has seen me<br \/>\nthe real question might be<br \/>\nhow long has it been<br \/>\nsince i have seen myself<br \/>\nsince i have allowed myself the opportunity to be seen<br \/>\nto be unpacked<br \/>\nunearthed<br \/>\nopened<br \/>\nhow much have i simply allowed myself &amp; others to put me in boxes<br \/>\nboxes i never belonged in to begin with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sometimes i wonder if anyone has actually seen me i know with obvious senses they have whether through sight, smell, taste or touch but have they SEEN me the parts that sometimes aren&#8217;t what they appear the parts they have to engage look for dust&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[653,648,654,651,652,649,650],"class_list":["post-9259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-653","tag-boxes","tag-free-verse","tag-have-you-seen","tag-poem-eight","tag-seeing","tag-seen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259","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\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15141,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions\/15141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}