{"id":93697,"date":"2021-06-26T16:19:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93697"},"modified":"2021-06-26T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:19:55","slug":"identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t stay a caterpillar and<\/p>\n<p>become a butterfly.<\/p>\n<p>Growing, hermit crab must<\/p>\n<p>leave his shell to find another.<\/p>\n<p>A tadpole, I need to<\/p>\n<p>give up my old self to<\/p>\n<p>become something fully new.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still hard to shed an unneeded identity.<\/p>\n<p>Take it off like an old white coat,<\/p>\n<p>out of fashion, wrong size,<\/p>\n<p>uncomfortable in summer.<\/p>\n<p>Need freedom to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Keep the title,<\/p>\n<p>discard the responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Giving up a medical license is not<\/p>\n<p>becoming \u201cOther\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>My dog will still know me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity &nbsp; Can\u2019t stay a caterpillar and become a butterfly. Growing, hermit crab must leave his shell to find another. A tadpole, I need to give up my old self to become something fully new. &nbsp; Still hard to shed an unneeded identity. Take it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93697","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93732,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93697\/revisions\/93732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}