{"id":92987,"date":"2021-06-26T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92987"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:27:50","slug":"compartmentalizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/compartmentalizing\/","title":{"rendered":"compartmentalizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>drowns his worries<\/p>\n<p>in a bathtub,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">compartmentalizing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">and filling each<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">thought into a bottle<\/p>\n<p>to pour out<\/p>\n<p>shot by shot<\/p>\n<p>another day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">one at a time<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">or too many at once till he<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">is drunk on the confusion<\/p>\n<p>swimming in what<\/p>\n<p>overwhelmed feels like<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">there is time for<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">everything but worry,<\/p>\n<p>worry always grabs<\/p>\n<p>at the scraps of whatever<\/p>\n<p>it can reach so<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">giving it an inch is<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">almost impossible<\/p>\n<p>like a single shot<\/p>\n<p>at a party he<\/p>\n<p>doesn&#8217;t want to remember<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">like a single note<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">of a song he once<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">listened to on replay<\/p>\n<p>what use are noise cancelling<\/p>\n<p>headphones when<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">the voices inside<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">are too loud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>drowns his worries in a bathtub, compartmentalizing and filling each thought into a bottle to pour out shot by shot another day one at a time or too many at once till he is drunk on the confusion swimming in what overwhelmed feels like there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4309,4398,3594],"class_list":["post-92987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021prompt5","tag-bathtub","tag-image-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92987","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\/3576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93045,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92987\/revisions\/93045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}