{"id":92889,"date":"2021-06-26T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92889"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:17:17","slug":"normal-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/normal-5\/","title":{"rendered":"normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cnormal is boring\u201d<br \/>\nthe button on my backpack<br \/>\nannounced to the world<br \/>\nas I coursed through my youth<\/p>\n<p>spiked red hair<br \/>\npierced eyebrow<br \/>\nand brooding countenance<br \/>\nconfirmed<\/p>\n<p>I wanted nothing to do with<br \/>\nstatus quo but to prod and dissect it<br \/>\nupend conformity<br \/>\nbend the will of approval<\/p>\n<p>until an unseen force<br \/>\nturned the whole world<br \/>\ninside out<br \/>\nfroze us all in a state<br \/>\nof desperation<\/p>\n<p>normal was lost<br \/>\na thing we didn\u2019t know we wanted<br \/>\nuntil we didn\u2019t have it<br \/>\nand now the thought<br \/>\nwe will never have it again<\/p>\n<p>that button is in a box<br \/>\nin the back of a closet<br \/>\nI dig it out and pin it on<br \/>\nto wear around the house<\/p>\n<p>normal is boring<br \/>\nand I welcome it<br \/>\nback<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 7: Write a poem exploring the word normal.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cnormal is boring\u201d the button on my backpack announced to the world as I coursed through my youth spiked red hair pierced eyebrow and brooding countenance confirmed I wanted nothing to do with status quo but to prod and dissect it upend conformity bend the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92889","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92911,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92889\/revisions\/92911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}