{"id":92620,"date":"2021-06-26T14:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92620"},"modified":"2021-06-27T03:33:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:33:54","slug":"too-much-pt-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/too-much-pt-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Too much pt one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I traveled the system,<br \/>\nthe secret system no one<br \/>\nwhispers about, fear they will<br \/>\nbe thrown in. I am a historian.<br \/>\nI am a journalist. I belong here. <\/p>\n<p>Just for stabilization. <\/p>\n<p>Converted motel. Roommates<br \/>\nthree feet apart. Teresa with<br \/>\nthe stutter. Teresa with the<br \/>\nseizures. Teresa with the open<br \/>\nheart, broken. Teresa with<br \/>\nthe fear. Teresa with the tenderness,<br \/>\nthe fall. <\/p>\n<p>Equine face against mine. Tears.<br \/>\nMystery tears. Shoulders caved<br \/>\ninward, collapsing my rib cage. I<br \/>\ncannot sing. I could not. I cannot still. <\/p>\n<p>Med lines. Glucose test.<br \/>\nBlood pressure, temp,<br \/>\ninverted moon. Bowel movement?<br \/>\nRate your pain. Days I felt<br \/>\nhomesick. Did not want to leave. <\/p>\n<p>Where the crazy people go. <\/p>\n<p>Where the hurt people go.<br \/>\nWhere the pain took us when<br \/>\nthere was a dead end or a thread<br \/>\nor a bridge or a rope. <\/p>\n<p>Too much for one poem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I traveled the system, the secret system no one whispers about, fear they will be thrown in. I am a historian. I am a journalist. I belong here. Just for stabilization. Converted motel. Roommates three feet apart. Teresa with the stutter. Teresa with the seizures&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92620","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92628,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92620\/revisions\/92628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}