{"id":92770,"date":"2021-06-26T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92770"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:24:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:24:12","slug":"the-shape-of-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-shape-of-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shape of Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normal might be a limiting line<\/p>\n<p>that hedges us into tight<\/p>\n<p>corners and right angles.<\/p>\n<p>For my grandma and my mom,<\/p>\n<p>cutting quilt blocks<\/p>\n<p>is everyday straight life<\/p>\n<p>but my normal recognizes<\/p>\n<p>the circle of quilting is outside my<\/p>\n<p>power of comfort.<\/p>\n<p>My patterned mandala creates<\/p>\n<p>its own book-lined comfort;<\/p>\n<p>each of us must find the geometry<\/p>\n<p>to shape our own normal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hour 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normal might be a limiting line that hedges us into tight corners and right angles. For my grandma and my mom, cutting quilt blocks is everyday straight life but my normal recognizes the circle of quilting is outside my power of comfort. My patterned mandala&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92770","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\/1350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92991,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92770\/revisions\/92991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}